they re saying look, the president is clearly a government guy, not a private enterprise guy. he doesn t understand private enterprise. martha: some are saying those comments were taken somewhat out of context. we played the whole context of it here yesterday. we ll play the whole context of it here again today so people can listen to it themselves and make a determination. stuart, thank you very much. thank you. bill: be careful not to tick off those varney viewers. martha: absolutely. bill: they will make themselves heard. government is saying cheaper gas is keeping prices flat. prices at the pump are going higher again. average for a gallon of regular, $3.41. about five cents higher than the week before and the second week of higher prices the government says the most expensive place to fill er up continues to be california. but the cheapest gaffe can be found on the gulf coast. martha: we rarely get our gas in california. we usually get it in new jersey. a big major u.s. bridge
live from america s news headquarters, the cost of fueling up going down another 7 cents in the past 3 weeks. the national average for a gallon of regular is $3.41. diesel prices are also going down, 5 cents in that same period. but drivers better enjoy the lower prices because the cost of crude oil is rising and that will likely end the downward trend at the pump. 25 people are dead after landslides in southern japan. people have been cut off in remote mountainous areas. several people are still missing. evacuation orders for a quarter million people have been lifted. many are able to return to their homes to check out the damage. more rain is expected monday. but forecasters say the worst may be over. now back to fox files: the enemy within. for your latest headlines, go to foxnews.com.
check back with you. bill: the forecasters say the drilling platforms in the gulf should not be affected. the national average for a gallon of regular is down to $3.41. that according to triple aaa. the trend for prices going down since april. stuart varney joins us. what s going on. this has nothing to do with the supreme court. we are actually using less gas now than we did a year ago, but we are refining a whole lot more. result? there is more supply on the market, less demand, so prices are coming down. i mean really coming down. in south carolina the statewide average for regular unleaded gasoline is now down below $3 a gallon. as we say, it s $2.99 in south
it could mean bad news down the road. the national average for a gallon of regular now $3.41, down nearly ten cents from a week ago, and some analysts say the price could dip below $3 by thanksgiving. but the reason why the prices are lower is also a key part of this story. phil flynn is senior market analyst at price futures group, also a fox business network contributor, and steve moore is senior economics writer for the wall street journal . welcome to you both. steve, why are prices lower? well, look, like everyone, jenna, i love the idea of paying less than $3.50 a gallon. it just made my weekend. but, you know, part of the reason that the gas price is falling is we are producing more oil and gas in this country which is the good news part of the story. the bad news part of the story, jenna, is the major driving force for this decline in gas prices has been the global economic slowdown. there s much less business production, so industry is usingless oil and gas using
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