this morning just one penny away, the national price the national average for a gallon of gas $4.99 a gallon. alexandra field live in new jersey. very close to $5 which is a serious mental barrier. reporter: we will be talk about this all summer long because all the predictions are it is just going to get worse. the average price crept up a penny overnight nearly two pennies but those pennies are adding up so quickly. consider the fact that a week ago we were at an average of i-4.76 a month ago it was $4.37 and a year ago $3.07 in knowledge they re selling gas for $5.09, ten cents over the national average and that s what people are dealing with already, some 20 states already sell fuel on average for more than $5 a
bernie sanders and now they are considering the possibility of electing a former republican as their mayor. why would that be? check out the crime statistics in los angeles. 2021 to 2022, robberies are up in red. aggravated assault up in red, total crime up in red as well. and that s what people are voting on in los angeles. we will see how it turns out, at 11 eastern time, an hour and 20 minutes from now. gas? california? cross the country, $6.37 in california, national average $4.91. i paid $5.20 the other day in new york. again, the economy and what california wants is a future. quickly i will go through this. this is the 22nd congressional district in california. why do i point this out? this is a republican, he voted to impeach president trump, he s got several challengers, three on screen. president trump has not endorsed any of these challengers here in
well, tonight, it seems there s no hitting the brakes on those soaring gas prices. the national average jumped another nickel today to $4.91 a gallon, and $5 gas is becoming the norm in a growing number of states. here s cbs carter evans. reporter: it s not just sticker shock anymore. painful pump prices aren t going anyway any time soon.n high. too damn high. it s ridiculous. reporter: the national soari average is just pennies away from $5 a gallon, and in these 13 states, prices are soaring even higher. in illinois, up 88 cents in just the last month. i just wish they d come back down. it s going to affect the summer. reporter: at $6.37 a gallon in california, a family of four here is spending $600 a month or more on gas, according to oilnot analyst tom kloza. we have had an ascent that is like the ascent of mount everest. july is anything goes. reporter: that s because millions of americans are back
35,000 litres of diesel every ten days, and the last delivery i ve got a delivery this week, £1.54 per litre plus vat. on 26 may, it was £1.37 per litre, an increase of 17p in just 12 days. that means tomorrow s delivery for the same amount of fuel will cause me cost me £6,000 more for the same amount of fuel. so you can appreciate that i ve got to observe that as much as i ve got to observe that as much as i can, but also i ve got the past some of the increase on my customers where i can. i ve got to pass. it s interesting you say of course i ve got to absorb that have you? it s not unreasonable to have to pass some of that on to your customers, the demand is there for your customer, i imagine, and they must understand what the reasoning is. ., ., , , ,
may also be. boy, grim news. oh, my god. wake up the kids, because we ve got steve rattner here. so excited. he s, of course, former treasury official and morning joe economic analysis. nothing goes better with your cheerios, kids, than news about charts showing a massive rise in oil prices, gas prices across america. so, steve, let s, first of all, let s just talk about the problem. show us the chart on gas prices shooting up. where are we right now? sure. as your correspondent said, gas prices have been going up pretty relentlessly. and you can see some of the specific numbers around what they were saying. in california, gas prices are already $6.37 and well above $5 in other places. and you can hear anecdotally, of people paying as much as $10 a gallon for it. but it s important to note, this is not just because of the war. this is not just because of what