tax cut but said it helped the poor instead of hurting them. in washington, jim angle, fox news. bret: oil went up today on signs of continueed high demand from china. bench mark crude rose $2 to finish at $100.71 a barrel. the national average for gasoline is now $3.38 a gallo gallon. the process of offloading more than a million gallons of fuel for folks in nome, alaska have begun. parallel hoses are carrying it from the russian tankser to the pipeline to deliver it to storage tanks. the regularly scheduled fuel delivery was canceled in november. because of a severe storm. preaching politics in the pulpit. next in the grapevine. the president will play to a really big crowd again
tax cut but said it helped the poor instead of hurting them. in washington, jim angle, fox news. bret: oil went up today on signs of continueed high demand from china. bench mark crude rose $2 to finish at $100.71 a barrel. the national average for gasoline is now $3.38 a gallo gallon. the process of offloading more than a million gallons of fuel for folks in nome, alaska have begun. parallel hoses are carrying it from the russian tankser to the pipeline to deliver it to storage tanks. the regularly scheduled fuel delivery was canceled in november. because of a severe storm. preaching politics in the pulpit. next in the grapevine. the president will play to a really big crowd again this september. hout a helmet. i took some steep risks in my teens. i d never ride without one now. and since my doctor prescribed lipitor, i won t go without it for my high cholesterol and my risk of heart attack.
and this is leading to the highest ever january gas prices and there si ithere s implicatie president. the average price of unleaded gas is up to $3.38 which is up from a year ago. this price is linked to uncertainty with iran. the closing of the straits of hormuz, i like to say straits of hormuz as often as possible on the show. with distribution of 20% of the world s gas and oil, when we look at the president looking ahead, the potential craters in the road, this seems to be one of them. these things are not happening independent of the election. as september, october, november approach.
may not be a whole lot better. the average nationwide price of se self-serve gas has topped $3.50. it s risen at a break-neck pace. almost 34 senlts in two weeks according to aaa. that s the fastest, highest increase since right after hurricane katrina. if this rate keeps up, not that it necessarily will, we will set a new record for the price of gasoline inside of a month from now. the highest average gas price to date is $4.11. you can see it there in the middle of the charge. $4.11, that was july of 2008. remember, averages are made from extremes, which means that the $3.51 average looks pretty good right now to our friends in san diego. they re looking at about $3.92 a gallon. seattle is $3.65, $3.71 in chicago, houston $3.38, $3.47 in boston, $3.41 in atlanta.
disability. a lot of people are going on or staying on government aid and government aid, at a time when government aid is targeted to are cuts. there are a number of long term unemployed people. you have to worry about what that does to the nation s psyche when you have this many people still out of work, six months a year, even two years and on. that s that s going to be the difficult most difficult nut for any candidate or any president to crack. chris: kevin, the unrest i said take oil out, now put it in. unrest in the middle east contributed to a spike in oil prices. crude is now $104 a barrel, that s a the highest in more than two years. a gallon of gas jumped 10% from $3.08 a gallon to $3.38 a gallon. kevin, the rule of thumb is for every one cent increase in the cost of a gallon of gas, that takes a billion dollars of consumer spending away from all