
How Gas Prices Got So High
The Dispatch Podcast
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Introduction
The national average price of a gallon of regular gas is four dollars and 95 cents as we're recording this podcast. Other than a few days last week, when the national average surpassed five dollars per gallon, americans have never paid more at the pump. Voters routinely tell polsters that inflation is the biggest problem currently facing the united states, and energy is among the biggest drivers of those price increases. We need to understand why they're so high in the first place.
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