setting off all this chaos in energy markets, we saw oil prices go above $130 a barrel. this signals more relief for consumers at the pump. 63 days in a row of falling gas prices. you actually have 12 states, including iowa and texas that are dealing with $3.60 or lower average gas prices. and if you look at what some of the analysts are saying, they re saying it s very possible that by september or october, the national average could go below the pre-war level of $3.53 a gallon. gasoline futures are signaling that some states could actually see sub-$3 gas by the end of the year. jake, i would caution that this hinges on nothing going wrong. if russia s oil exports get knocked off line, if there s a hurricane in the dpgulf that shs down refineries all bets are off. let s turn to another economic story. walmart releases its quarterly results today. what did the results have to say
think that experience does him a huge amount of credit. you won t hear a negative word out of my mouth about any candidates. it is brilliant we had such a broad race. i am the mp for newmarket and having a broad field at the start of the race is a very good thing. lots of options and huge diversity and for me, in terms of calibre, one clear winner and that is rishi sunak. matt hancock, thank you very much. we have the result, rishi sunak at the top of the mps results today. the next vote taking place next week which is where the contest could start slimming down very quickly. thank you, we will return to you a little bit later. let s get more and as a result we just been healing and joining me is the policy
they cannot begin to be counted until 9:00 a.m. on friday, the provisional ballots. there are 589. they have not updated the results today. they re going to do so once they scan the last 850 in. it s important to note as of this morning, david mccormick was only a few hundred votes ahead of dr. oz, and so fewer the gap is smaller than that 589 provisional ballots that have to be counted friday. there s a few days before we know the final results in this county and other counties. it makes people waiting frustrated, but the fact of the matter is the 22,000 misprinted ballots have been dealt with, and we re going to have some kind of tally giving us some kind of idea of the breakdown in the next hour or so. okay. and again, we re just talking about lancaster county specifically in pennsylvania. but there are as you mentioned other counties counting votes. we re going to keep our thumb on the pulse of it.
is going to be looking at taiwan. they re already surrounding that island, and that would be a strategic failure for a lot of reasons. interesting you say that. and i just wonder whether you, in the spirit of candid review of your own party, whether you re prepared to say to me, you know what, the four years of donald trump, the way he handled vladimir putin and indeed xijinping was a disaster for us foreign policy making. because, on both fronts, we saw that donald trump wasn t really about principle. he was about transactional politics. and he thought he could conduct transactional politics with both putin and xijinping and we see the results today. would you agree? well, if i could answer that, we didn t. we saw kim jong un stop firing rockets. he just fired two rockets injanuary, claiming they were hypersonics. we didn t see china under trump launch a hypersonic missile.
whether you re prepared to say to me, you know what, the four years of donald trump, the way he handled vladimir putin and, indeed, xijinping was a disaster for us foreign policy making. because, on both fronts, we saw that donald trump wasn t really about principle. he was about transactional politics. and he thought he could conduct transactional politics with both putin and xijinping and we see the results today. would you agree? laughs well, if i could answer that, we saw kim jong un stop firing rockets. he just fired two rockets in january, claiming they were hypersonics. we didn t see china under trump launch a hypersonic missile. we just saw china, and really the entire world in shock that he had that capability to orbit the globe with accuracy, pinpoint with a nuclear payload. we didn t see putin do this provocation on the border of ukraine. in fact. well, forgive me, but we saw