orof or of course you can find it on the iplayer as well. but a real warning there about the dangers of going down that route, which people only down that route, which people only do because they are driven to my desperation. ben, thank you very much indeed. lots of you getting in touch about samuel and his music that we heard a short time ago, including this message from fiona. she said she was really moved watching his story. her husband was 41, about the same age, when he was diagnosed with parkinson s. but by playing the bass trombone for the last 20 years it has kept him going is the parkinson s advanced, and she said creativity can be so important. her message to samuel and friends is well done and keep it up. thank you everyone who has been in touch. we have had an overwhelming response, so thank you. it 8.39 exactly. john is at lord s ahead of the first day if the men s ashes second test. good morning. all eyes on those
gasoline is now $8.39, oh, no, wait. that s in the uk, not the usa. $8.27 no, that s in france. the average price of gallon of gas in the united states is actually down nearly 50 cents a gallon from its peak of $5.01, just over a month ago. that is saving us more than double, with a federal gas tax holiday would have saved because of the federal tax on a gallon of gas is 18.3 cents per gallon. today, the national average for a gallon of unleaded gas is $4.52. now, for little perspective here in the united states, we pay less than half of what many european countries pay for a gallon of gas. and we always have, we always have paid much lower gas prices
41% liking it, 38% against it. so that s pretty much an even divide, but above water. and finally, should congress and the president continue their efforts to repeal and replace obamacare, evenly divided, 38/39. mark murray is with us as well. the public reaction to all of this is very much in flux. and republicans are thinking about what their base wants. i just flew pack from georgia, where they had the special election and a republican won there. when i talked to voters on the ground, they were desperate more for tax cuts than obamacare repeal. do they want to see health care costs lowered in the ruby red republican areas? of course they do. but they re not rallying behind this legislation. that s the problem for these republican senators. they know the party wants repeal. but they don t particularly love this legislation and are not ready to fight for it in the grassroots. and we also have seen what people like rand paul had to say this morning. and he ll be a key vote. let s p
second. anna: i don t either. tucker: maybe reading the paper or watching television. anna: i don t think anybody can sleep that much. tucker: i don t think it s possib possible. anna: how about days, hours, spent working in the weekday, 8.39 and on the weekend. 5.88. clayton: that sounds about right. people are doing a lot of. even though they re not physically in the office, but perhaps in the weekend catching up on e-mails and now with the new technological world you re never really away from the office. anna: does that take out on the time on facebook playing around. clayton: that s the study. the time spent wasted on the computer. tucker: an awful lot. 3 hours or more, 14% of you say you waste that much. 22%, two hours, an hour or less, 65%. anna: how about the time spent waiting in line, a pet peeve of mine. 6 minutes 51 seconds, new yorkers. you notice he when you re waiting for an elevator, you