An estimated 41 million americans are hitting the road. Here is the good news. The average regular price for gasoline has fallen to 2. 81 a gallon, an 0. 89 drop, the leest level in five month, and seen by thanksgiving travellers. While americans save on the cost of driving, they are forking out more to serve turkey and trimming trimmings. The reason gas is falling is oil is falling more. Oil futures settled at 73. 69 a barrel. Thats a 31 drop since the rices peeked in june. Since oil is refined into gasoline americans save on car travel. Theres a lot of reasons for the drop. Supply and demand. America is pumping more oil out of shale, thanks to fracking or hydraulic fracturing. On the demand side europe and china are consuming less due to slow downs in economic activity. When demand lags, leading producers get together and agree on supply cuts to stablilize prices. These are not normal times. The 12 members of the organization of Petroleum Countries are meeting in vienna to try coordi
An estimated 41 million americans are hitting the road. Here is the good news. The average regular price for gasoline has fallen to 2. 81 a gallon, an 0. 89 drop, the leest level in five month, and seen by thanksgiving travellers. While americans save on the cost of driving, they are forking out more to serve turkey and trimming trimmings. The reason gas is falling is oil is falling more. Oil futures settled at 73. 69 a barrel. Thats a 31 drop since the rices peeked in june. Since oil is refined into gasoline americans save on car travel. Theres a lot of reasons for the drop. Supply and demand. America is pumping more oil out of shale, thanks to fracking or hydraulic fracturing. On the demand side europe and china are consuming less due to slow downs in economic activity. When demand lags, leading producers get together and agree on supply cuts to stablilize prices. These are not normal times. The 12 members of the organization of Petroleum Countries are meeting in vienna to try coordi
And equipment is going through and we know this stuff. We have the proof and i know that some people dont want to do that. And i think that we have to be part of this and i would talk about the misfortune to read this blog and feel the stuff that they have put out about that, including very recently, we understand what has happened and i think that that has to be with no ifs, ands or buts. And i think that thats where you start. And my second point goes to the longerterm question of some of my colleagues have said what we see as part of his reactions what is happening its not only that they are putting themselves forward in a new conservative international appealing to traditional stakes were we have traditional family values, but its almost a revolt against this and obviously we all understand the what they need to do is talk about this. A lot of this is what is appealing and they sort of dont want to be in the 21st century. So if he is in power for another 10 years as it likely. We h
This week on q a our guest is journalist and author who discusses his new book, age of ambition chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new chin china. Host evan osnos in your new book, under the acknowledgments, you start out by saying none of my grand parents lived to see the book but they are responsible for its conception. Tell us more. Well, my grandparents on my fathers side came from poland and my mothers father was a diplomat sent to hungary and kicked out accused of being a spy but he wasnt. But the experience of being ejected from poland and hungry founded a backdrop for the life under authority. It wasnt explicit parts of the conversation but i was interested in what it felt like to live in a country in which there were constraints on what you could care about and what your values were like and when there was a moment in my life where you could do that china fascinated me. Host when you went there in there in 1996 could you speak chinese . Guest i was starting to speak it.
You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. All weekend long American History tv is featuring greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro is home to where civil rights activist started the sit in movements, inspiring nonviolent protest throughout the south. Our Time Warner Cable partners worked with our staff, and we recently traveled to greensboro to discover the citys rich history. Learn more about greensboro all weekend here on American History tv. We are in greensboro, North Carolina at the military park, standing on the battlefield. During the revolutionary war the british had moved their campaign to the Southern Department and had captured georgia and South Carolina and tried to what they called restore the party, which meant they would conquer the land, and that is how they ended up here in the middle of North Carolina. It was march of 1871. General Nathanael Greene was pitted against the