unleaded gas, 24 cents per gallon of diesel. the national average for regular unleaded hovering around $5 a gallon. lawmakers in both parties say they aren t really certain this would make much of a dent. south carolina senator tim scott is skeptical. unfortunately the way that gas is ticking up every single week, that reduction in price is eliminated in about 12 days. what we need is to have certainty and predictability so that those energy producers feel like they can invest billions of dollars to extract the energy from the soil so that we can use it in our tanks. all we re doing is playing a game of moving things around but not actually impacting the marketplace long term. harris: that s why i question does it help biden s politics more? americans are changing travel and commuting plans to save on gas.
midterms but garland doesn t care about the midterms. jennifer, thank you. this just into cnn, national average for a gallon of unleaded gas now just pennies from the dreaded $5 mark for the first time. aaa puts the number at $4.97, up nearly two cents overnight. this marks a record high for the 13th straight day. this is also the 30th record high in the last 31 days. this could be the new normal for quite some time. let s bring in mark stewart. we ll get to $5, no question. and we know there is a whole bunch of reasons why. how high do you think gas prices will get and at what point will americans start changing their behavior because they don t want to pay it? i posed that question to an analyst and he said at this point really anything goes especially as we enter july and august, the big travel months, when demand is so high.
Seven states are now at an average of $5 or higher per gallon, with Illinois becoming the latest to join California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, and Alaska.
the choice for attorney general is clear. democrat rob bonta has a passion for justice and standing up for our rights. bonta is laser focused on protecting the right to vote and defending obamacare. but what s republican eric early s passion? early wants to bring trump-style investigations on election fraud to california, and early says he ll end obamacare and guard against the growing socialist communist threat. eric early. too extreme, too conservative right now millions of americans are hitting the road for memorial day weekend. one aaa is calling the most expensive one ever. the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is now $4.60, up from $3.04 last year. a ten-year high even adjusted for inflation.
free and that s how the numbers skyrocketed. this could be this launch, yes, a message for the united states but also a distraction domestically, some victory that kim can project to the north koreans at home to basically try to have them look away from the really horrific medical situation that s happening on the ground and the fact that north korea turned away millions of doses of vaccines, they just rejected them. so as a result north korea is one of two countries in the world without a vaccinated population. the other being eritrea. will ripley, appreciate it. thank you. investors anxiously awaiting the opening bell on wall street this morning after the dow dropped more than 1,100 points yesterday. that s the worst day of trading since june of 2020. also, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas now above $4 in all 50 states for the first time and concerns over inflation have some economists calling for yet another interest rate hike. this is what federal reserve