At the gas station or waiver of a january 6th? were about gasoline and food prices? exactly. d.c. politicians are so out of touch with what mainers are going through every day. they are struggling with the very issue you re talking about. they re not looking at what happens on january 6th. tucker: it s interesting that you are running from estates that heavily rural but dominated by one city, portland just like oregon. you wonder why maine doesn t send more people to congress who represent the way a lot of people in maine live. they re all lawyers. i ll tell you what s happening right now. at this time it s so exciting. we are in a grassroots revolution because of my campaign, people are coming out of the woodwork because they finally have something that they can trust, somebody who is genuine, authentic, but understands them. they can get behind.
tucker: the official inflation by definition is a fraction of the inflation rate you experience. the official is 8.6% ending in may 2022. the same time, the stock markets and the bond markets are tanking simultaneously. interest rates are up, way up. what do we do about all this? how d you make it better? senior fellow west joins us now. thank you for coming on. how would you rather than just blaming putin, what would you do to make this better? i can give you nine things we can do on inflation right now. it cut government spending, encourage oil and gas exploration, and the student payment loan moratorium, repeal by america provisions, repeal
New ethanol rules the president put into place. it repeal new environmental restrictions on infrastructure that raises costs and suspend the jones act and open up shipping on ports. that s nine things congress and the president can do right now and doing none of them. tucker: let s just pick one. ethanol. can you think of anything that will make food prices go higher then burning more corn in people s cars? what will be the justification for doing this? it s insane and to give away to put it in gasoline. it supposed to be better for the environment but instead of having 10% ethanol, you can have 15% ethanol which is a big giveaway to corn producers. anything you buy that has corn in it will now be more expensive when you go to the grocery store. tucker: if you ve got a food and fuel crisis and you raise the ethanol mandate which doesn t help the environment.
People who cannot tell you what a woman is knows so much about an ar-15 rifle. exactly. they don t know anything. that s all for us tonight. tucker carlson is up next. always remember, i m waters and this is my world. tucker: good evening, welcome to tucker carlson tonight ! my publicist announced with a straight face he plans to run again in 2024. we ll address that at some point tomorrow, but first another crisis in the news. after the killings in buffalo a few weeks ago you heard people talk about something about red flag laws. the government informed us could and mass shootings tomorrow
Power. i m bringing down the cost of gas and food. considering the markets and their approval numbers, pretty much moving in lockstep some of the blame game doesn t appear to be catching on. finally, there is one index that s rising every single day. the volatility index. up 110% since january. that means investors have extreme anxiety over the future economy. by the way, outside the window, gas, $7.27 per gallon. tucker. tucker: beyond belief, trace gallagher, thank you so much. great to see you. record high inflation i suggest just heard, joe biden should do something about it. we will have a guest later this hour who has a plan to lower inflation. the number of shoulder and identifying as transgender skyrocketing, not born that way obviously. it s propaganda at work. that s next.