books. and we were here yesterday keeping an eye on things. 4.09 at one station, 4.19, 4.05, shop around. up $0.07 on thursday and now up $0.11 to average of 3.84. diesel the same thing, even worse, up $0.14 to 4.26, the average gallon of diesel right now. and we are close to breaking records for all time records for both diesel and regular gasoline, just to talk to andy, the noted oil analyst who told us what he thinks is going to happen. i expect national retail price of gasoline will hit 4.25 per gallon, and that exceeds the record that was set back in 2008 of 4.11. that is of course just an
one indiana metal factory has lost more than 7% of its workforce in the last two weeks and the ceo who is joining us right now j.d. brown is the ceo of bci solution. j.b., the reason people are leaving is because they can t afford the gas. that s one of the reasons, steve, good morning and happy wednesday. you know, a year ago we were at $2.70 a gallon. a.a.a. standards for south bend, yeand indiana, that s increased to $4.26. just a month ago we were at 3.34. a 22% increase in prices in gas. in 2008 we learned a valuable lesson. we were rocking and doing great job. we had a great economy doing things and gas got above $4 a gallon. and when it got to be $4 a gallon, you know, we started losing employees and we were wondering why. they said it was too far to drive. right now in our county in mark county in breeman, indiana we
figuring out how to go to work, to running errands, they re having to reassess how they re doing things. so, we have seen in the past week, a slight dip in the prices. that is due to a drop in gas demand. and due to lower oil prices as well. the national average, as you said, that is $4.26 according to aaa. but still, prices have soared to an all-time high level. the closest that americans have seen to that was back in 2008, at $4.11. now, it s at $4.26. so definitely impacting americans a lot here. we have seen action from washington all the way down to the state level, to try to ease that pain on consumers. the governors in both maryland and georgia, just recently, suspending their state gas tax to try to help out drivers. governor brian kemp suspended that through may 31st. and that savings should equal to
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crunch. it s hurting them, right? consumers are having to reassess their day-to-day. can they work out remote work with their employers, save on the commute, can they stack up their errands of the weekend. when we re talking about the real impacts here, it s to rideshare drivers, these uber drivers and cab drivers. they re really feeling the pain he here. one driver i spoke with only got $10 in one day waiting hours there, $10 is what he got there for his fare. this is the national average, $4.26. wow, look at that. a week ago, we actually hit the highest of all time at $4.33. the closest we got to that was in 2008 at $4.11. a year ago, $2.89. why don t i remember that? right. and every cent counts there. this is deeply impactful. we re seeing movement from