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roulette. straight to washington we go to lizzie o'leary. we're talking gas prices. they jumped 3 cents a gallon from yesterday to a national average of 6 cents a gallon. why have they gone up? >> i wish i could give you the political sound bite the politicians want, but it's just not that simple. the world is big. there are three things driving this, and that is essentially the price of oil that's influenced by iran and the middle east, supply and demand, you have a lot of people, certainly in india and china, who are getting richer than they've ever been before using more, and th...