investigated industry in the world. called up by the democrats saying we are going to hold you responsible like the tobacco companies for climate change, what did you know, when did you know it, don t invest in oil. i didn t hear anybody offering a tag day when they were losing billions during covid, i didn t hear anybody wanting to bail them out, it ridiculous. windfall profit tax is going to hurt the people, making false accusations against the u.s. energy industry does not help, and i ll tell you this. if indeed, you know, the u.s. energy is not the enemy. well, and there needs to be a strategy to bring prices town. we can all agree it s pain on the average american family, shelling out a whole lot more money than they were just a year ago to pay for their gas, heat their homes and many other things. a lot of the consumer item on the shelf are running up because the trucks are paying more. good to have you, thank you very
adopting an all of the above energy policy which includes wind and solar, we are going to start producing oil and gas to help our friends in europe. and also have the effect of reducing the price of oil and gas. i went to fill up becky, my spouse s car this weekend, her car fainted. i mean, the prices, for god sakes, are fueling inflation and their caused by the president s own economic policies. john: no question senator the gas prices are going through the roof. something the white house said on the china front and the russia front. said if china helps out russia it will face significantly consequences. if russia were to use chemical weapons, it would face severe consequences and i was taken by this because it s the first time that the president seems to have used constructive ambiguity to talk about what he would do if,
you must fight. it took a lot for the woman to do that, knew she would most likely get arrested. that s the sort of thing you can t block out as putin has been doing with so many other messages. sandra: and could be a defining moment in this conflict and a reporter for the daily beast, because there is multiple reports she had already gone missing that was following this story, julia davis. and then tweeted she was in court with her lawyer and she was facing administration charges that she would have to deal with. the and then there was an actual picture that emerged from the courtroom of her. so we will continue to follow her story. john: at least we know where she is. pt sandra: indeed. americans are seeing slight relief at the pump. gas and oil prices have fallen to the lowest levels in a couple weeks. folks across the country are still paying more than $4 a gallon. and that has historically very high gas prices.
at home on your couch and order in on uber eats, each of those orders will go up by 35 or $0.45. grubhub announced it s increasing pay for drivers dealing with higher gas prices. did not say whether they would pass it on to customers. right now it s like 120, and it was 60. you pay more for fuel, obviously everything else goes up. the national average for a gallon of gas today is 4.31, up from a week ago. down slightly from yesterday and the record high of 4.33 on march 11. but aaa warns, sandra, that the oil markets are still extremely volatile, so even though oil has slid over the last week or so, anything can change in ukraine, and bring those oil prices and subsequently gas prices right back up. sandra.
likely to be a red hot issue heading into november with the republicans insisting the president has not done enough with the prices out of control. john: not sure they can sell the #putin price hike. yeah, it was 2.86 a year ago. prices started surging a long time ago. sandra: democrats also blaming oil companies for sky high gas prices. bring in jackie deangeles. the two lawmakers making the accusations, big claims, invited them on the program, they are welcome to come in and defend this and explain their rationale for it, is that what s going on here, the oil companies are colluding to run prices up? let s start with that, no. the oil companies are not price gouging. let me be very, very clear on that. are they making more on the bottom line, because the price of oil has gone up, of course