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$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...

77.5. this is what economists had expected, not to be so high, but they had expected it to go back up. the big concern, let's talk about oil and oil prices. here we are in february talking about this. normally, we would be doing a segment like this probably prior to summer season. >> exactly, in may. >> yeah. and here we have the price of oil passing $100 a barrel last week in the u.s. national average gas price now $3.35 a gallon. but as we focus a lot on libya and what's going on in the middle east and the unrest, can it all be attributed to that? >> not necessarily. i mean, yes, there is a ...

Pocketbook at the pump. there is an economic impact that spreads across the country. >> if prices continue to go up in the unrest in other regions, then that would be a big drag on economic growth here and globally. obviously, you feel the pain most predominantly right at the pump. as that last customer was just saying, we're at 3.34 and 3.35 and prices could go as high as 3.50. >> what about even longer? in a week or two, 3.50. what are we talking, worst case scenario? >> consumer spending is the obvious worst things that could happen on this. people pay more for their gas and they're forced ...

Economic recovery now what's happening in libya what greece did to us almost a year ago? >> it's a real possibility, guys. you look at the national average for gasoline right now, $3.19 a gallon. that doesn't tell the whole story. if you look at areas of the country, people are already paying well above $3.35 a gallon. all these increases we have seen over the last two weeks, we've seen a nickel increase in the price of gas per gallon, all those increases don't take into effect the skyrocketing prices we have seen the last couple of days include oil prices. this morning, crude oil prices are u...

Prices. don't forget, part of the reason for this rise in oil and gas is the rapid decline of the u.s. dollar. that's the result of obama policies. but the president has escaped any and all criticism and it's the same with food price inflation. food prices are really beginning to take off. >> they are. >> no criticism of president obama whatsoever. even though he has some responsibility for it. >> when you see the tea party and the anti-illegal immigration movement, both came from the bottom up and made the politicians pay attention. that's what it's going to take. it's going to take the avera...