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Down the show. bill: you don't need the accent. have a good weekend. martha: has his own charles payne kind of charm. folks in california are hit the hardest in all this. state average is $4.20. charles will be all over in may but they have already have that in california. drivers in los angeles have no choice but to fill up. they have to drive all over the place to get there. that is true for folks living in very remote areas. prices look to be heading towards $5 a gallon. bill: the way charles describes this might be cheap based on what we're headed for. back in 2008, we reached record high ...

Gallagher from a chevron station in l.a.. >> reporter: pretty amazing, m.k.. in california can gas prices are typically higher, we have higher real estate taxes and higher gas price taxes here. i want to point out a couple things. this is in santa monica, so it's a busy area, but take a look at this. regular gallon of unleaded gas at $4.49. plus at 4.69, supreme all the way up to 4.79. across the country sticker shock is setting in, and we are on pace, megyn, to shatter records. take a look at the number bees. back in 2008 on this very day we were selling gas on the national average at $3.13 a...

Viewers, pat, to send some of their gas priceses which was -- prices which was really fun yesterday because you saw such a change in places like louisiana, jess pays 3.49, michelle pays 3.21, in tennessee, get out to california, it's 4.11. so what's up with the difference in prices? why do we see such a change between the coast and the middle of the country? >> exactly. you know, in wyoming today, they're paying 2.80, out in san jose, it's 4.05 a gallon today. a lot of it has to do with refineries, what type of oil they're using to process into gat -- into gasoline. in the rockies gas is so ch...

Barrel. those on the left say no, it was the economy that did it. >> when you played the montage before -- >> steve: you want to see it before? >> yes. >> steve: here is when she was the press secretary and george bush was the president. >> a lot of people are blaming oil companies, but it could be an ominous sign for republicans, a number of people we spoke to are blaming president bush. >> the bush administration under pressure to curb rising gas price. >> the political pressure is rising about as fast as the price of gas. so the president gives a major energy speech today. >> spiking gas pr...

Profits and stuff like that. fast forward to today. he's president. he could do something. zip! >> that's right. if you look at the summer of 2008, when george bush was president, it reached $4.11 a gallon. the media was all over president bush. it is your fault. you're not doing anything about it. they really just went to town on him. exact opposite today. the establishment media has not taken off on the price of gas. >> let's look at what it was under george w. bush. when he took office in january of 2001 it was $1.49. and when he left it was $1.84. it got as high as $4.11 a gallon during hi...