hurricane doesn t affect you, it could affect your gas prices, and even in the long term, throughout the entire hurricane season, you do want to keep ahead of that forecast because it may affect what you pay at the pump. let s get first to the prices, jim, right now, the price today is $3.82, the national average, up $0.07 from about a month ago, and it s getting very close to that all important $4 a gallon price, and the problem there is that both psychologically and for inflation, that s a bad thing. what could still affect it? jim, it s all of those things that michael was just talking about. upped their hurricane forecast. we now have not a normal season on the horizon, but about a 2 in 3 chance of a worst than expected hurricane season. that will certainly impact gas pric prices if that comes to fruition.
average for a gallon of gas today, that s $3.82, about where it was a year ago but 68 cents higher than two years ago. combine that with the cost of a new home, and americans are paying the the highest they have in 22 years. the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage increased last week, a a strain that buyers is have not seen since 2001. a year ago it was 5.5%. the federal reserve continues to try to chip away at stubborn inflation, and americans are feeling it overall everywhere they turn. according to the the latest fox news poll, 35% of registered voters this month reported that their personal financial situation is excellent or good, now 65 reported only fair if or poor 65%. that second number up 19% from two years ago. inflation and the economy consistently rank as top concerns for voters, but president biden feels confident that his economic efforts are paying off and that embracing the term bidenomics will earn him a second term. bidenomics is just another
he is celebrating. he is in arizona and they will block 1500 square miles of acreage around grand canyon, so they cannot mine uranium there. no electric vehicles while in arizona? pointing out there are suv s on the tarmac there. price of oil, sitting under $82 today, been sitting $82 per barrel. $9 up from last month. average cost of gas $3.82, have not seen this since october of 2022. he will be running on climate change successes, just in the last three months, wholesale diesel jumped by 31%, jet fuel up 33%, gasoline up 18%.
we are getting pushed into this ev world while many can t even afford it. at the same time, anybody was tying to still drive their gas car, gas prices are going up substantially in the past month. $3.82 is the national average. what exactly is going on here? this ev push premature. we ve got to start somewhere. the ev buses have improved since the last reporting period you have to look at the big picture. there s no reason to panic at this particular disco. president biden has initiated the investment act. that is led to $270 billion in private investments. a lot of that investment, sandra, your viewers should know is going to red states. 80% of the projects in green clean energy are going into republican held districts. we also see that 60% of the
real time for republicans to pick up where leaving the young voters behind. it is an option. julie: thank you very much, carly cooperman. we appreciate you very much. the president s campaign pushing on but the pain at the pump is making a comeback the average price for a gallon of gas up nearly $0.30 from a month ago. now $3.82 come up white house correspondent peter doocy pressure off paternity leave, congratulations, peter. you have grown up before my very eyes. thank you, thank you, julie. the present gas prices are such an issue now that they were becoming such an issue. it is one of the only things that has to go guys who had a major falling out on the same page. joe biden declared war on energy and his first day in office and shut down the