2020, before biden was in office, the gas price was $1.99. last year, gas prices in south carolina $3.40 per gallon. yes, elections have consequences. harris, that is best i ve heard it played. harris: wow, so well put, the numbers don t lie and people are starting to feel it. think how much passage of time that has been if you are paying on average that much more for not just gasoline, but everything else. we talked about on this program, you need oil and refined products for a lot of other products you are using at your home and work. put on top of that inflation now per the biden administration and the big problem for this is that it is insulting what gavin newsom is doing, he has no
chris. and i want to remind you that senator bernie sanders back in october also put an op-ed in manchin s hometown paper. i m holding one right here, the charleston gazette, where he basically tried to pressure senator joe manchin into voting for this build back better piece of legislation. obviously, that didn t work. and i heard from source even before i got down here last night, that said that senator bernie sanders comments, progressive s comments aren t going to move the needle. senator joe manchin s approval ratings have been growing here in the last couple of years, and it s because of the political makeup here. i m in charleston, west virginia, it s the capital of a state that has less than 2 million people in it. but i spoke to some folks on the ground today, and they re on pretty opposite sides of the pages. it s being moving more towards this redder landscape. as you said, more people voted for trump dramatically than biden, but let s take a listen to what wes cogger told
south carolina, the rural parts of the state are amazing and also you have a lot of military, right? yes. dana: inflation affects them active men and women in the military very much. 100%. we are the home where we actually make marines at paris island, we train the army folks at fort jackson. if you think about an 81 or 82 eligible for public assistance because they get paid so little on a person working paycheck to paycheck they drive up to the gas station and now gas is up almost 75%, $1.99 last year, $3.40 this year. you think about increasing the temperature in your home and you are increasing the amount of money leaving your account by more than 25% increase in a single year. those are things that you cannot afford in a dual parent
we are still paying more than one dollar per gallon at the pump. obviously it takes many gallants to fill the tank these days currently $3.40 a gallon on average nationally. cnn serving at the pleasure of this administration insulting your intelligence that this drop is a game changer. people who fill their tanks today, feel no difference when they fill up those tanks. just like saying $0.16, you save that your fourth of july barbecue and that is supposed to be a big deal and people asked how cnn is down since the beginning of the year, how they are getting beaten by the food network, paramount tv, tlc, two hallmark channels and the partridge in a pear tree. this is how. this proposed curriculum in california to make masks more inclusive and the curriculum deemphasizes calculus, apply social justice concepts to mass. don t know how you do that but
might just need to break em in a little bit. you don t want em too loose. for those who were born to ride there s progressive. with 24/7 roadside assistance. -okay. think i m gonna wear these home. -excellent choice. martha: so gas prices could be headed to $5 says j.p. morgan. the average is $3.40. now president biden is considering a measure that would make it more expensive for oil companies to drill on federal land. let s bring in mike summers, president of the american petroleum institute. what do you make of those numbers? it s $3.40 average right now. you think that we re headed to the $5 range? well, martha, we re concerned about what this administration is doing to domestic energy