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Feb 2022
25m 7s

The President and the Price of Gas

NHPR
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How accurate is an "I did that" sticker? What do presidents, now and throughout history, have to do with the price at the pump? We speak to Robert Rapier, engineer and analyst at Proteum Energy and Irina Ivanova, economic reporter at CBS News to get specifics. 
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