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The spiking oil prices. is he playing with fire. >> tell me about i you said gas prices will be $4 a gallon this summer and i live in northern virginia and i just paid $3.79 a gallon and we're already almost there and if the prices continue to rise we could see near $5 a gallon gas and this is something we warned about, on the editorial pages for the last 2-3 years, that all of this money ben bernanke and the fed has been flushing into the u.s. economy at some point, that does ignite inflation, and we're not just seeing that in oil prices. stuart, we are seeing that last week the highest wheat...

$3.35, $3.49, $3.79, 3.89 and in d.c. -- >> i just had a mild heart attack, but i'm doing better now. >> reporter: $3.65 on one side of the street. $4.55 on the other. >> oil has been high. i don't know why. >> reporter: nationwide, you pick the gas station, the complaints sound the same -- >> they're killing us. they're killing us. i'm out of work. i don't know how i'm going to afford to live. >> reporter: while yesterday's national average for regular unleaded was $3.43 a gallon, it's well above that in many big cities. washington averaging $3.50. new york, $3.68, up 30 cents in a week. chic...

Deal. >> but i like this. this is a bar soap that is the same branld. it applies. it's usually $1.09. you take the coupon and now i get it for nine cents. most people wouldn't know you could get that because they're going by the picture but when it comes to coupons always go by the words. >> she is like the coupon ninja. >> i buy free copies of the newspaper because if you're a coupon user if you have three sets of coupons you'll save a lot more and get more free stuff. >> oh, my goodness. a whole $1.19. >> no. i'm looking for free. >> wow. all right. you've got high standards or low ones. i'm...

$3.79. i think we have everything on the list. >> $130. >> so before any savings at all we're at $130.21. >> which is an average week at the grocery store. >> for some people. not for us. >> yes. >> but i start out by doing the store card which gives us the sale prices. then i was down to $72.87. >> so right now the computer is in disbelief. >> right. though you didn't do anything wrong it just -- okay. good. i'm happy. for a varsity shopper this is the kind of number we want to see. >> look at that. 89 cents. that is insane. that's insane. that's crazy. well, poppy, there you have it. $130 wo...

Than one savings program. in this case there's a special promotion. so this item is instead of 3.79 it's 2.29. i also have a coupon i printed for a dollar. so that brings it to $1.29. but i can use that along with an electronic coupon. i'll pay 29 cents instead of 3.79. and i think we got everything on the list. $130. so before any savings at all we're at $130.21. >> which is an average week at the grocery store. >> that's -- for some people. not for us. but i start out by doing the store card, which gives us all the sale price savings. and that brought us down to $72.87. >> so right now the c...