houston floodwaters. back to you. such devastating pictures. martin savidge, thank you so much. let s get a check on cnn money stream. markets around the world cautious after north korea s biggest ever nuclear test over the weekend. japanese and south korean stocks ending the day lower. and tensions on the korean peninsula remain in focus after reports north korea is transporting what could be an intercontinental ballistic missile. markets are pointing to a slightly lower open today after being closed monday for the labor day holidays. we will see their first reaction to this missile test today. gas prices will be rising. are rising more than a week after hurricane harvey knocked the gulf coast oil refining industry offline. but the increase has begun to slow. the national average price for a gallon of regular is up 27 cents in the last week. in texas, the average price is 34 cents higher since last week. but the spikes, the high, they
what it s doing. well, the oil industry has now responded by saying, as far as they are concerned, there s no problem to fix. this new report from all the oil and gas companies follows another report released last week by the oil refining industry, and surprise, they, too, say this north dakota oil is totally fine, the rail cars we ve been using are just perfect, pay no attention to the aforementioned explosions. just today, one of the top lobbyists for the rail car manufacturers said the same thing, according to them, they ve got no problem. these rail cars are getting a bad rap, they are totally fine, we swear, we love explosions. if there was any hope within the federal government that the oil industry was going to voluntarily choose to be safer, they were going to adopt voluntary new safety standards, that answer has now come in a resounding way, and so now the question is, what s going to happen next? last week we the secretary of transportation on this show, and he said he hoped
parties like one of the oil industry s top law firms, just completely impartial disinterested observers, according to this new report that s being taken seriously in the press, this new report by 500 oil and gas companies, the oil industry, according to them, needs to change nothing at all about what they are doing. nothing to see here, these explosive fire balls blowing up the train tracks every few weeks, think of those giant explosions as free fireworks shows, or heat. when the feds put out those safety alerts saying this type of oil is more explosive and these rail cars are unsafe for it, those safety alerts are basically meant to urge the oil industry to voluntarily change what it s doing. well, the oil industry has now responded by saying, as far as they are concerned, there s no problem to fix. this new report from all the oil and gas companies follows another report released last week by the oil refining industry, and surprise, they, too, say this north dakota oil is totally fi
industry s top law firms, just completely impartial disinterested observers, according to this new report that s being taken seriously in the press, this new report by 500 oil and gas companies, the oil industry, according to them, needs to change nothing at all about what they are doing. nothing to see here, these explosive fire balls blowing up the train tracks every few weeks, think of those giant explosions as free fireworks shows, or heat. when the feds put out those safety alerts saying this type of oil is more explosive and these rail cars are unsafe for it, those safety alerts are basically meant to urge the oil industry to voluntarily change what it s doing. well, the oil industry has now responded by saying, as far as they are concerned, there s no problem to fix. this new report from all the oil and gas companies follows another report released last week by the oil refining industry, and surprise, they, too, say this north dakota oil