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One year ago today a gallon of regular gasoline on average throughout the country was $3.04.

Today it's $4.71 it went up 4 cents in one day. I predict within 7 days it's going to hit $5.00 a gallon on average.

For regular, not premium, not diesel, they're way higher for regular, the lowest level of gasoline.

In California today the average price for regular gasoline is $6.21. The Democrats want to turn us into California where they control everything by super majorities because they chased out the Republicans.

But we're told there's good news OPEC will increase production by 50% at least for a period of time but absolutely nothing to improve domestic production.

Nothing. The food is still on the throat of domestic oil energy production.

And so inflation will continue to rise, prices will continue to rise, the value of your paycheck, your pension, social security will continue to decrease.

Your savings that you work so hard for will continue to be devalued.

Interest rates are going to go significantly higher.

That's what happens when you create inflation. Government creates inflation.

Government created inflation. And I won't bore you with another rendition of what I said 14 months ago almost to the day.

An inflation and energy prices go hand in hand.

It's not because of Russia we never imported much oil from Russia. And 18 months ago we were energy independent. We didn't have to import any oil from anybody. Now we have to beg the solidities, other monarchies to try and help bail us out but they're not going to be able to bail us out.

What happened to the supply chain? How they can ate the oil to the United States.

And those pipelines are where to be built. What happened to those? And the drilling that was to take place in Anwar and Alaska. What happened to that?

What happened to all those leases, those 9000 leases and the ones that that look promising?

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