particularly in texas and the midwest who work for energy firms, run energy firms, this is very hard on them. they re cutting back spending plans and it could lead to layoffs, less hiring. upside is that gasoline prices are going to keep falling. $2.19 a gallon is your national average today. you have 37 states where you can find gasoline at service stations under $2 a gallon. three more states will join that list. by the end of the week. what s going on? production of oil and fuel in this country is going through the roof because of all the new technologies and the shell formations we ve tapped. at the same time opec has not cutback production. they re basically in a price war with us a production war and then demand worldwide is falling because the world economy is looking weak. so you have a glut of oil and that s what s going on in the
to report lows. this is exciting. i love filling up my gas tank. the national average is $2.19. last year it was a dollar more than that at this time. the averages are even lower in some states. stuart varney, happy new year to you. this is like a new year s present for everybody at the pump. american technology which has found a way to get more oil out of the ground in existing wells. it s called frack or horizontal drilling. americans invented this, put it into practice and now we have a surplus of oil that s driving the price down. there are 7 states in america where the average price for regular is under $2 a gallon. they include texas at $1.98. there is one station in crawfordsville indiana where
we re looking friday at the dow and the dow about to finish above 18,000. in new record territory. 53 and change above from what it closed on wednesday. a lot of things to say, hey, gas prices below $2 in some places. $2.19 back home, $1.99 on the way up. is this why he has better approval rate sngz. he had a really good end-of-year press conference. the obama charm and charisma came across and voters saw it. things are getting better. but we re ready to move into a new congress, new house, new senate. the president hasn t had to pay attention the last for you years to the house. now he does. we ll see the president hopefully govern. the president doesn t ever have to run again, so he can take some chances. he can talk about some policies and he s got a chance now to try to get across the partisan divide and do things the country wants because there is a lot left. as we talked about, he doesn t
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