Hello and welcome to this late political gap test for March 10th, 2022, The Price of a

Gallon of Gas edition. I am David Plotz, Citycast here in Washington, D.C., where it's like

somewhere around five bucks a gallon, I would say.

I'm joined, of course, by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University

Law School from New Haven, where gas prices are zero because Emily is driving an electric car,

right, Emily?

And riding my bike. Virtue signaling all the way, or actual virtue. But not signaling actually turns. Do you signal

turns? I do. With my higher signal turns when I'm biking. Okay. That's John Dickerson of CBS Sunday

morning from New York City, where gas prices are probably like, I don't know, $7 a gallon or something.

Hello, John. Hello, David. This is really weird epipenomenon at the gas stations I tend to frequent in D.C.,

which is there's one whose gas prices are 80 cents a gallon higher than one that's a block away.

It's really, because of where it's position, it catches a certain set of people who I think are probably desperate for gas whereas the one on the other side of the street doesn't because of how traffic is flowing and there was that that one in Georgetown yeah where the prices were like three dollars more because there was some it had had some idiosyncratic dispute or something it It was crazy those prices. You guys sound like Andy Rooney. Yeah, exactly. And then when I was on the party line, oh my God, you could hear what everybody was saying. Haven't you realize that at a certain point every middle-aged man becomes like Andy Rooney? Yeah. And now the middle-aged, you know what annoys me? The middle-aged men don't even know who Andy Bruni is.

Tragedies, truly.

This week, the Ukrainian invasion, the flight of refugees, the attempt to corral and constrain and lock down the Russian economy, what's happened in the past week.

Then, inflation is at its highest rate in 40 years.

Gas prices are soaring, and Americans are furious about it.

Then an op-ed by a University of Virginia college student, University of Virginia student,

like John Dickerson once was in the New York Times, annoys just about everyone who is on Twitter.

Plus, we will have cocktail chatter.

The Russian war against Ukraine is just sad and grinding and bloody.

Russian troops have clearly failed in the initial effort to decapitate the Ukrainian government

and replace it and quickly take over

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