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Lou Penrose sitting in for John Colbelt all this week.

Good to have you along with us.

Well, gas prices are dropping, plummeting, actually.

Coming down across the country. And that is fantastic news for all

of us. So it's a good thing. Don't misunderstand my joy. But it is amazing to me that in a year

where California Governor Gavin Newsom has raised taxes on gas, and it was politically unpopular,

that he will now benefit from the federal energy policy because the gas prices are hiding

his tax increases and no one notices.

And in politics, it is better to be lucky than good.

ABC News correspondent Alex Stone joins us. So it's just the... in politics, it is better to be lucky than good.

ABC News correspondent Alex Stone joins us.

So it's just the barrels of petroleum are just stacking up.

Nobody needs them.

Nobody wants them.

Nobody's using them.

Well, and yeah, gas prices are going down, but we can laugh at that in California because it's going to be nothing like the rest of the country.

But generally, and then on

average in the U.S., yeah, they're going way down. And this is something that hasn't been seen

since the beginning of the pandemic. And not only the average price slew going down under

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