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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110224:12:30:00

if you're trying sell your house with a lot of nice houses on your block, you may have to upgrade your kitchen. a 6,000 stove, something that was actually duh rigor during the height of the bubble is not going to give you money. a $1,200 return replaces your money and then some. garage doors. price it right. that's what i hear more than anything else. if you've got hundreds of thousands of homes on the market which are not selling, which we do, 26% of homes are sold in distress and foreclosures. you've got to price it right if you're trying to sell. if you're trying to buy, have a lot of money in the banknd a 750 credit score. and yesterday was a tough market again because of libya, you guys. rising prices. you talked about wegmans. the consumer there, 12,106.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110224:14:11:00

prices like this. it's up 6 cents. we'll keep a question about whether these numbers will continue to head skyward. you can't overstate the importance of energy prices in this country in terms of our economy. >> reporter: you ask the question will the prices keep going up in the short term, the answer is yes they will. the wholesale price is up 6 cents. so you can probably look to $3.30 next week. but more important sport overall economy is deals. $3.60 a gallon now and rising quickly. diesel powers our trucks and track towards. when it goes up that moves the inflation rate. so you add it up. there is money being tang out of consumer's pockets by higher gas prices. there is an add to inflation.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110224:17:47:00

partners in the organization of petroleum exporting countries, namely saudi arabia. saudi arabia is really looked to the swing supplier in any sort of disruption. so the first thing will be to assess how quickly saudi arabia can replace those lost barrels. >> and also whether saudi arabia remains stable. the king is taking measures ahead of a major revolt there. he's trying to make sure that there are new poverty measures in place to meet people's demands, so that they don't see a repeat of what's happened, for instance, in bahrain. how much of a linchpin is saudi arabia in terms of being calm and stable and not seeing the kind of chaos we've seen elsewhere? >> it's everything. libya had limited trade partners. its supply really was focused in italy and other close mediterranean neighbors. saudi arabia, though, is responsible for exports to every major consumer in the world, including the u.s. >> there are some estimates now that we could actually see oil hit $220 a barrel. do you think that's farfetched? >> it is right now.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110223:07:27:00

$4 gasoline. >> glenn: what we bought already at a higher price. >> on the national average, doesn't take into account what is going on in egypt. doesn't take into account what is going in libya where 15 cents a gallon higher just on the libyan unrest and add that clearly on a $4 gallon gasoline and that would cost the american consumer $138 billion. do it again, one step further, venezuela, chavez says, you want come hang with us. if they get involved. put venezuela on the map. $5 gallon of gas. >> glenn: i hear there are contracts with china, ours are up in two years and we're getting a lower grade of oil to refine our contracts are up. >> hugo chavez has done something afreoshs to america.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110223:00:31:00

peter barnes of the fox business network joins us live in d.c. by all indications the effect on oil supplies has been minimal so far so why are we paying more? >> shep, consumer advocates sometimes blame price gouging and speculation for the quick drop in prices at the pump, gas station owners clearly admit they will try to raise prices as soon as they can to bring in the cash they need, that they will need to pay for the new shipments of gasoline that they will get in a few days at higher wholesale prices. you pay for the replacement cost of the gas already in the tank in the ground at the station, shep. >> we got indication today that other oil producing nations will increase output that should drive prices down, right? >> that's right. saudi arabia said today it is ready to pump more oil if needed. libya produces about 1.5 million barrels a day right now. saudi arabia could produce an extra 4 million barrels a day to offset part of that but the saudis say right now oil prices are rising on a short-term fears

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110223:07:26:00

do you think that is reasonable? >> we did this a year and a half ago. we traded up to $147 a barrel, it was very quickly fell off into the table from 147. it wasn't sustained. it was a drilling issue and things going on. you're right. you put $120 barrel on the market for any period of time. that means somewhere around 4.25 gallon gasoline, that is a lot of money out of consumer's pocket. that hundreds of billions of dollars that go directly shipped overseas to people that hate us. >> glenn: bring the lights up. >> so here we are today. 3.17 on the pump, average pump price. problem is the prices that are being discovered right now haven't hit the pump. i think today we're already in a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110222:22:26:00

do you think that is reasonable? >> we did this a year and a half ago. we traded up to $147 a barrel, it was very quickly fell off into the table from 147. it wasn't sustained. it was a drilling issue and things going on. you're right. you put $120 barrel on the market for any period of time. that means somewhere around 4.25 gallon gasoline, that is a lot of money out of consumer's pocket. that hundreds of billions of dollars that go directly shipped overseas to people that hate us. >> glenn: bring the lights up. >> so here we are today. 3.17 on the pump, average pump price. problem is the prices that are being discovered right now haven't hit the pump. i think today we're already in a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110222:21:41:00

this is a problem where essentially, it isn't a free market. these corporations are still practices economic travelism. kind of like the mercantile. that helps the producers, but hurts the consumers. we have to be a consumer based economy. >> how do you affect that change? >> we do it. say, no, you can't do this anymore. we're going to vote in the people. >> i like that a lot. skeptic magazine. just ahead, we're in hollywood. the oscars are coming up r so let's go hollywood. what is the smart money saying about the oscars? who will win, who will lose, who will cry and how many times will they say thank you? there is an over under and we'll discuss it right after this. that's a coffee and two pills. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110222:22:27:00

$4 gasoline. >> glenn: what we bought already at a higher price. >> on the national average, doesn't take into account what is going on in egypt. doesn't take into account what is going in libya where 15 cents a gallon higher just on the libyan unrest and add that clearly on a $4 gallon gasoline and that would cost the american consumer $138 billion. do it again, one step further, venezuela, chavez says, you want come hang with us. if they get involved. put venezuela on the map. $5 gallon of gas. >> glenn: i hear there are contracts with china, ours are up in two years and we're getting a lower grade of oil to refine our contracts are up. >> hugo chavez has done something afreoshs to america.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110221:09:17:00

million customers in one quarter. and the third element is we go rural. the world is not going just to the urban side. we go rural. we get the connected world now in reality. >> and north america doing very well. for your business and for some of your competitors? >> yeah. north america. the consumer is taking charge. and customers with a demand, that inspires operators to do all very kind of remarkable things. >> and 4g is the term. and it's about faster pipes and you all have to supply the pipes. you've got to make sure it works. >> well, first of all, consumers don't care whether you call it 3g, 4g. they care what they can do. they want the service wherever they want it. whether it's on a big screen and call it tv or the small screen and call it a hand set, doesn't matter. it's video driven. that's what's happening. >> and that's only going to increase with all of these new

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