Political: Price of a Gallon of Gas

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Ukraine's fighting spirit, rising gas prices, and conformity on campus. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: The Science of Politics podcast: “Does the Public Respond to Threats to Democracy?” The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman Emma Camp for the New York Times: “I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead.” David A. Plotz for the Harvard Crimson: “‘Politically Correct’ Thought Control” Here’s this week’s chatter: David: Kayla Stewart for The New York Times: “One Huge Hog, One Long Day and a Nourishing Southern Tradition” Emily: Pam & Tommy John: Henry Fountain for The New York Times: “At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found” Listener chatter from Carol Walker: BBC podcast 1914: Day by Day For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, Emily and David discuss the people they carry with them. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slate political gap that's from March 10th of 2022, the price
0:11.8	of a gallon of gas addition.
0:13.6	I am David Plotts, CityCast here in Washington, D.C. where it's like somewhere around 5 bucks
0:20.6	a gallon, I would say.
0:22.2	I joined, of course, by Emily Bazeland of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University
0:26.6	Law School from New Haven, where gas prices are zero because Emily is driving an electric
0:31.8	car, right, Emily?
0:32.8	And riding my bike, virtue signaling all the way, or actual virtue, you'd die.
0:38.1	But not signaling actually turns.
0:40.2	Do you signal turns?
0:41.2	I do.
0:42.2	I have a signal turns when I'm back for causing mayhem.
0:44.6	Okay.
0:45.6	That's John Dickerson of CVS Sunday Morning from New York City, where gas prices are probably
0:49.1	like, I don't know, $7 a gallon or something.
0:51.8	Hello, John.
0:52.8	Hello, David.
0:53.8	There's really weird epiphenomenon at the gas stations I tend to frequent in D.C., which
0:59.6	is there's one whose gas prices are $0.80 a gallon higher than one that's a block away.
1:07.4	It's really, because of where it's positioned, it catches certain, a certain set of people
1:11.4	who I think are probably desperate for gas, whereas the one on the other side of the street
1:15.6	doesn't, because of how traffic is flowing.
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