above the national average at $ $3.82. in southern california, you will be set back ridiculous amounts. experts say the gas prices will fall to a more manageable levels in the next few days because of major refinery is back in service after losing power last week. now, the associate managing editor of the the wall street journal, parent company of this network. $6 in california. guest: it is important to think about from an economic standpoint because everyone buys gas. fur on the edge economically, this is a pinch. it causes people to spend less on other things. consumption across the broader economy. this one laboratory is back on line as of friday. they had a power outage that affected the refinery of the gasoline you have to produce to meet the air quality requirements of california. another refinery, there are 14 of these in california, another refinery had a fire in august.
average, $3.82. adam housley is live in los angeles. did you cycle too work today all things considered? what is going on there? that would be nice, we don t really have public transportation, so i continue take transportation to work. i drove from northern california to southern california yesterday. if you find gas under $4.96 you take it. it s tough to find. this 76 station in los angeles not far from the 405 freeway, the regular price is $4.99. down the street you ll find regular at $5.29. there are three reasons for it. one demand is up. two, a number of refineries have gone down, including a big oil refinery in the bay area back in august, and three, california s gas standards are higher, different and strict. you can t buy gas from surrounding states and bring it in. you have to do it here. that is the issue right now as prices continue to drive up.
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the economy as a whole. are we better off now than four years ago? absolutely not. look at, $3.82 gasoline. that is the national average, compared to $1.84 when the president took office. look at $16 trillion worth of debt versus $10.6 trillion when the president took office. look at 8.3% unemployment, versus below 8% when the president took office. look at overall level of employment, the lowest in 30 years for number of people, proportion of people actually going to work every day. i find it very difficult to say that the country as a whole economically is better off than four years ago. i would say the reverse. we re worse off. martha: that number on the screen is not one we heard a lot about last night and i doubt we ll hear too much about it this evening we ll see. we ll see. stuart, thank you very much. thank you, martha. bill: jobs number on friday. we ll see what happens then. we re just getting started. there is a new controversy
put $3 under the pillow per tooth. the tooth fairy is more generous steve: i am steve doocy it s a 15 percent increase over live in north carolina . what the tooth fairy gave last you can see the university of year. north carolina dance team and lauren simonetti. thank you very much from the fox the marching band that is joining us . business network. it is 11 minutes after the hour. we have a lot of festivities coming up there is no relief in from the nascar hall of fame sight for a battled chief janet we ll take you to billy napolita graham s library . laura ingram joins us to talk napolitano. another employee filing suit. we will have details about that coming up. about the news of the day. you might be paying more for that organic food. frank luns looking at ads here s a question a lot of folks want to know. does it make a difference to your health? surprising findings of a new hitting the air wave and how study. that is straight ahead. did brian kilmeade lose his as we head