Everything is great other than all of this stuff
5/1/202651 min
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David Pakman· Host1:00
There is a story that is getting almost no attention, and it is hitting your wallet directly, which is that gas prices are climbing again. Oil is at a wartime high, and it is all because of what's happening in the Middle East right now, even though the focus for a lot of legacy and corporate media has been the ballroom and the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting. We are gonna break down what is happening with gas prices, what is happening with energy, why, and then the why it could get worse, which is just