730: STREAMING MAKING OF THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, FEATURING JEFF BLISS, 4-10-2026 1970 HILTON LV
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 April 2026
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STREAMING MAKING OF THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, FEATURING JEFF BLISS, 4-10-2026
1970 HILTON LV
While the sources do not specifically cite a current price of exactly $8 per gallon, they describe a global energy landscape where prices are rapidly approaching or exceeding that mark. In Tokyo, for instance, gasoline prices were approaching $9 a gallon before government subsidies brought the cost down to $4.50. In Europe, costs are also extreme, with prices exceeding 2.20 euro per liter in Berlin and France.
In the United States, the following factors are contributing to high costs, particularly in the West:
- Regional Highs: Southern California is currently seeing gas prices in the high sixes.
- Taxation: A significant portion of the cost in California is driven by taxes, which now total nearly $2 for every gallon.
- Refinery Capacity: The closure of numerous refineries has created a refined fuel bottleneck. This lack of capacity is now causing prices to "creep up into California territory" in neighboring states like Arizona and Nevada, which traditionally relied on California's surplus.
- Seasonal Demand: As the Eastern U.S. enters "driving season," there is no expectation that prices will drop toward previous levels, especially since California remains in a perpetual driving season.
John Batchelor emphasizes that these rising costs for gasoline and electricity are not merely economic issues but geopolitical drivers that will influence political stability and voter behavior worldwide in the coming months.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good day. This is the making of the John Batchel show. I'm reporting from New England, |
| 0:05.9 | a very sunny and still a little touchy, chilly New England, but it's above freezing, and that's good. |
| 0:14.3 | I've been walking the boys, my spaniels, Charlie and Sailor, all week in below 30 degree temperature, which is not enough to |
| 0:23.9 | freeze the ground, but it's enough to keep you moving quickly. It's 38 degrees here, and that |
| 0:30.5 | feels like a warming trend that's going to stay in place. So welcome springtime one more time. |
| 0:35.7 | Makes me think of planting and to call the nursery. I welcome my |
| 0:39.8 | good friend of many years, decades now, Jeff, Jeff, to his Pacific watch. He is on the West Coast |
| 0:46.7 | where they always have springtime. I always ask about the weather when I talk to the Sierra Madras |
| 0:52.7 | because they know it's going to be magnificent and everything's in bloom. It's great fun. And everything's in bloom in Los Angeles |
| 0:59.5 | as well. But we're going to start with the overall picture of the weather just because this looks |
| 1:05.7 | like a normal springtime to me here in New England. And I want to check on normal springtime in |
| 1:12.6 | Southern California. Jeff, a very good day to you. Would you say this was normal? You have |
| 1:17.1 | heavy rains, then you have heat, then you have in between. Is that a pattern that is long |
| 1:23.1 | established? Good day to you. Good day, John. It's I would say right now we're definitely enjoying springtime weather. |
| 1:31.9 | It's going to be in the 70s again today, bright and shiny. |
| 1:35.0 | A little later next week, it'll have some rains. |
| 1:37.8 | But for the most part, we're looking at a period where we have several weeks of temperatures in the 70s to high 70s. |
| 1:44.3 | Very mild. |
| 1:45.5 | Nice, nice beach weather, but it's not quite feeling like summer yet. |
| 1:49.8 | Notice how the big cahoona slipped the beach in. |
| 1:53.0 | It's the ace in the hole. |
| 1:54.3 | Just in case New England thought it was going to compete with Southern California, |
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