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This is the Tom Hartman program.

A lot going on today. Professor Richard Wulf will drop by to talk about the impact of this

massive increase in the price of oil that we're about to see as a result of an OPEC action,

tell you about that in a moment.

Also, will Jerome Powell, Mohammed bin Salman and Vladimir Putin succeed in bringing the entire

world's economy to its knees? I think so. The OPEC plus, it's like OPEC plus Russia, basically,

which has become a hate democracy club. I don't know how to say it, other than that.

Russian foreign minister, but their oil minister, is the co-chair of this meeting,

along with the Saudi minister, you know, acting on behalf of Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman,

and they just cut oil production by two million barrels a day.

That's, you know, two percent of world oil production, and that's not inconsequential.

We're going, you know, the goal that they have explicitly stated is to get oil back up above

a hundred dollars of barrel, which means the gasoline prices in the United States will be back

up above five dollars and arguably above six dollars in gallon, just in time for the election.

Now, do you think that Putin and Mohammed bin Salman might really like to get rid of Democrats

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