The Political Price Of Gas

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Politics, News

4.6 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The crew discusses what high gas prices have meant for politics historically and outline the debates in Washington over how to bring those prices down. They also mark two years since the U.S. shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, by using data to explore some of the ways American life has changed in that time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nate, how's Vegas?
0:01.3	It sounds like you had a very late night, Friday night.
0:04.2	Not in a particularly fun way,
0:05.7	I was just playing in a poker tournament.
0:07.2	So, yeah, I mean, not that poker isn't fun.
0:09.3	But yeah.
0:10.0	Yeah, I was gonna say, isn't that's not fun?
0:11.9	Then what are you doing, Nate?
0:13.3	It's in the uncanny valley between fun and work.
0:16.8	Oh.
0:17.8	Yeah.
0:18.3	Story of my life.
0:19.3	You know what they say, do what you love,
0:21.9	and you'll never work a day in your life?
0:24.2	It's a worst device I've ever f***ered.
0:25.9	Yeah.
0:26.7	Do what you love, and then you'll never love anything.
0:28.7	Yes.
0:29.7	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.
0:40.0	I'm Galen Drick.
0:41.6	Who gets the blame when gas prices go up?
0:45.1	And what are the political consequences for whoever that is?
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