doing everything in his power to address the putin price hike. so jackie, do you agree? no, but she s doing a good job of parroting from the jen psaki play book because that s the thing psaki used to say. i will break this down for everybody at home who is confused in any way about what s happening with the gas prices. $2.38 biden s inauguration week. january 31, 2022, roughly a year later $3.36. that was a 41% increase before prices started moving because of putin. so yes, putin did monopolize on a bad situation here in the united states and make it worse. who is going to own up for that 41% price increase in gas prices that started when this president came into office? and when they say that they ve exhausted solutions, and they re doing everything they can. they re actually not doing everything they can. what they can do is back off of this mantra of we re going to try to kill the fossil fuel industry and let big oil do its
from a week ago, regular is 3.36 a gallon and depending where you live you can expect to pay a great deal more as you mentioned according to local media reports gas station in isolated highway in california was charging 7.59 a gallon for regular and almost 8 and a half dollars for premium. triple a says california leads the nation with the highest prices for gas averaging 4.54 followed by hawaii at 4.27, also on the top 5 list nevada, washington and oregon. speaking earlier this week at a town hall meeting president biden said there s no quick fix for the escalating gas prices. i can tell you, i don t have a near-term answer. there s two things i could do, i can go to petroleum and take out and reduce the price of gas, maybe 18 cents or so a gallon.
doesn t have a solution for rising gas prices. i don t half a near-term answer. there two things i could do. i can go on the petroleum reserve and take out and reduce the price of gas $0.18 or so a gallon, still above $3. i don t see anything that will happen in the meantime to reduce gas prices. could do more domestic production but that is just my opinion. the average gas price nationally is $3.36 a gallon, for example how bad this is in california and la, paying close to $5 a gallon. you know how much of a drive. never seen $8 before in my life. something random about that, you know why it is so hard? for that particular town, a supply chain issue and location of it.
president biden says that s not going to change any time soon. don t have a near term answer. i don t see anything that s going to happen in the meantime that s going to significantly reduce gas prices. as of thursday, the average gas price nationally is sitting at $3.36 a gallon. and the l.a. dodgers world series hopes are still alive thanks to the bat of chris taylor. taylor. not one, not 2. but three. taylor hitting three homers leading l.a. to 11-2 victory over the braves in game 5 of the nlcs. the series heads to atlanta for game 6 tomorrow night. those are your headlines, steve, over to you. steve: that s great. carley, thank you very much. meanwhile, what kind of a day do
average price $3.36 a gallon. maybe that will incentivize me to give up ice cream. the defending world series champions on the brink of elimination. hey, andy, with the bleacher report. something special about the atlanta braves team. they lost ronald acuna, jr. didn t look like they were going to make the postseason. the braves traded for an entirely new outfield before the deadline. now a game away from the world series. one of the guys they brought in, eddie rosario came up big in game 4 against the dodgers. got the scoring started to the left. a chance to hit for the cycle. needed a double. hit another home run. braves win big 9-2. they can punch their trip to the world series. game five second inning, rafael devers, big chunk goes flying