because their salaries are stagnant, if they have a sag la. food prices are going up. the gas average now is $3.85, up 30 cents from a month ago, more than a dollar than we paid last year. i want to bring into the conversation nbc s mike taibbi in chicago where they re paying the average price here, mike, what, $4.26? well, $4.26 may be an average. we re standing in a place where it is $4.599 for gasoline. this is the blues town, if there wasn t bad news, there wouldn t be no news at all. this is one of the six states where the average price is north of $4 a gallon. they also are aware that they re also aware that there are some analysts saying that if all the elements in place driving gasoline prices stay in place over the summer, leading to the hurricane season, we could be looking at gas prices north of $6 a gallon. that s getting almost the united kingdom and germany and france