Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xton Show podcast.

Welcome back in our number two Monday edition Clay Travis Bucks Xton show. Hope all of you guys

had fantastic weekends. Thanks for hanging out with us in Houston for the 1200 or so of you who

did phenomenal time there. Encourage you to go download the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a

single moment. Top of the next hour we're going to be joined by Trisha Reagan to talk about the

specific surrounding a surging price of oil and how that is impacting the war in Ukraine.

In particular however we likely this week based on the trend lines are going to set an all-time

high for the cost of gas. Over four dollars a gallon now in most parts of the country if you

were listening in the last segment you heard that in the San Diego area even at Costco over five

dollars a gallon right now. It's a real tax on the vast majority of Americans white black Asian

Hispanic out there who are living paycheck to paycheck and the bite that comes out of having

to fill up your gas tank is a substantial one. So there is a solution out there of sorts and

by the way it's produced more gas in the United States drill baby drill but in the short term

what we are doing buck is we are paying for Ukraine to fight against Russia billions of dollars

and we are simultaneously putting billions of dollars into the pockets of the Russian regime

of Latamir Putin because we are paying for the resistance of Ukraine while still buying to a

large extent Russian oil and that is true for many different Western democracies. And so there

has become the discussion and the decision how do we replace Russian oil so that we're not

effectively paying both ends of this conflict both Ukraine and Russia. And there appear to be you

tell me if you can think of additional ones but there appear to be five primary ways in which we

could increase the amount of oil that we are able to get from supplier nations. The best option

is for the United States to go into overdrive. I would argue that there's probably even a strong

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