Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is urging farmers, agribusinesses, and rural residents to start evaluating their propane needs for the upcoming fall and winter.
skyrocketing around the world which means more pain could be on the way for consumers with higher costs on everything from heating oil to natural gas and gasoline and everyday items and food supplies as well. senior market analyst for the price futures group and fox business contributor, phil. welcome to our program. show you two things here. number one, 180% increase in natural gas prices since a year ago. the other one was fox business.com heating costs may triple as natural gas and propane shortage looms. this is what we're trying to understand, phil. it seemed like the entire world went sideways within the last year. we've got problems, europe has problems, asia has problems. how come? >> i think it's bad energy policy. for the last couple years europe has sold their soul to the gods of climate change.
you make money if you buy the stock and stock goes up. you'd have to have a crystal ball and esp to know if that would happen. >> i understand. christine romans, thanks so much. still to come in the newsroom, the brutally cold winter has caused a severe propane shortage. prices so high, one woman may have to sell her home because she can't afford the propane bill. george is here with more. good morning george. >> hi carol. we'll show you the high price for people running out of options. that's next from cnn. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ]
the airport, you're about to see that greeting. he said he wanted to talk with the president about wisconsin's significant propane shortage. there the president shaking hands with the governor. on the other hand, walker's democratic challenger, there she is, mary burk, did not meet with the president. a spokesman saying burk is busy. she's campaigning in western wisconsin. republicans say it's a sign of how unpopular president obama is right now. from wisconsin it's onto national for the president he visits a high school to promote plans for new private-public partnership. but gun control will be front and center when he arrives in a few hours. brianna keilar explains. >> president obama is promoting his go-around congress economic message from the state of the union address. but as he pitches his plan, the issue of gun violence is following him to nashville where he's scheduled to tout new public-private partnerships today at a high school reeling after a student was killed by
air force one on the tarmac. he spoke about the propane shortage in this bitterly cold winter. mary burke was on the other side of the state. the real reason is she's afraid to be seen with him. after signing his executive order, the president flew off to nashville, tennessee. he's expected to touch a little bit on gun violence, an issue that got a lot less play in this year's state of the union speech compared to last year's. it was rocked earlier in this week, tuesday, when one student was fatly accused of shooting another off campus. before the president got off air force one, he sat here at this ge plant and signed the executive order. this is his first interview following his state of the union address on tuesday. in the exclusive sit-down, we talked on a whole range of topics, economy and asking him
the president. they have an opportunity to talk about the propane shortage that's going on in the midwest including in wisconsin, has a letter he's already written to the president. he does the right thing, he welcomes the president of the united states to his home state. he's being challenged by a democrat, mary burk, who is nowhere in sight. there's the president when he landed just a little while ago in wisconsin. you can see the governor is there to receive him. but mary burk, who's challenging scott walker, she's in the other part of the state today. she decides she's not going to be anywhere near the president of the united states, presumably because she thinks that kind of photo is not going to help her chances of beating scott walker. now, if this were just one isolated incident, that would be that. but it's happened a few times when he went to north carolina a few weeks ago, the incumbent democratic senator kay hagan, she was nowhere in the state. they always have an excuse of being busy, a full schedule. he went to louisiana, mary landrieu, the incumbent democrat up for re-election, she was busy