we would have been bigger than russia and if you take a look, russia and saudi arabia combined. if we were energy independent for the first time. i know you say it s 70 odd years, but we were energy independent. that s a great thing and i consider that a great achievement. thanks to the lisa murkowski and a very bad decision, they ended that in alaska. this is the largest field perhaps in the world. perhaps bigger than saudi arabia and they ended in and they ve been trying to get it since ronald reagan. ronald reagan couldn t do it, i got it. and they ended it, the biden administration. a gasoline additive $1.83, or a dollar and $0.86 per gallon and now it s at $7.70 in california. different places in california and it s headed that way everywhere and it s going a lot higher than that and we are asking opec for help. we did not need opec anymore.
at the end of my term, we would have been bigger than russia and if you take a look, russia andyo saudi arabia combined. we were energy independent for the first time. i know you say it s 70 odd years, but we were energy independent. that s a great thing and i consider that a great achievement. thanks to the lisa murkowski and a very bad decision, they ended that in alaska. this is the largest field perhaps in the world. perhaps bigger than saudi arabia and they ended in and they ve been trying to get it since ronald reagan. ronald reagan couldn t do it, i got it. and they ended it, the biden administration. a gasoline additive $1.83, or a dollar and $1.86 per gallon and now it s at $7.70 in california. different places in california and it s headed that way everywhere and it s going a lot higher than c that and we are asking opec for help.she we did not need opec anymore.
the u.s. and other countries have agreed to release 60 million barrels of oil reserves to bring relief but so far it s proving to be just a drop in the bucket here s tom costello. reporter: bad news for anyone who uses gasoline just take a look at pump prices. i m scared. i don t want to pay, like, 10 bucks a gallon. reporter: the national average has jumped four cents in just one day to $3.65 a gallon, up 12 cents in a week, 25 cents in a month. california pays the most, averaging $4.86 a gallon over the course of the weekend, it would not be surprising that motorists can step outside, see the gas station, and prices could go up 20, 30, even 40 a gallon in some of these areas. reporter: here s why. russia is the world s second largest oil exporter but today its exports are under a de facto ban as shippers refuse russian oil, countries turn away russian tankers, and banks refuse to extend credit
we are as a nation that donald trump and his cronies are not in charge. they would have us out of nato and supporting putin. you have one part of the republican party rooting putin on, and another part trying to break international law by killing him. it underscores how vital it is to have a sober foreign policy handler in the white house, keeping the pressure up but temperature down. you said earlier we should be reducing the oil output there. a number of lawmakers are joining that and voicing support for banning oil of any kind from russia. the national average is $3.83, averaged slightly higher around $3.86. late last night, calculations for today could be even higher. are your constituents telling you they re feeling the pain in their wallets and how do you balance punishing oil, punishing russia, on its oil exports
plan to add a fuel surcharge. they did not say when it s going to go in effect or how much they re manning on. it s not just the ride shares. we re feeling it, too. we re paying the most for gas than ever before. the national average is $4.32 today per gallon. it s up quite a bit from not only last week where it was $4.06 but a year ago when we paid $2.86 per gallon. because we re spending over $4 a gallon, aaa found that six out of every ten drivers are changing their driving habits because of the costs. it s not hard to see why. with inflation at a 40-year high, 7.9%, americans are struggling to keep up. a big challenge that a big