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El Sayed's cure for high gas prices would make them worse

Democrats are filming campaign ads at gas stations while Republicans puzzle over voter gloom amid faster growth; both fights come down to what you pay for fuel.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTurning to your wallet.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDemocrats are filming campaign ads in front of gas stations, and the Washington Examiner says their fix for high gas prices would make those prices worse.

  3. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA political ad at a gas station. So the one place where you already feel helpless now has a soundtrack.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe column calls the politics a strategic layup, but says the policy itself is incoherent.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's a polite word for it, and you're still paying at the pump this morning.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIncoherent. I've had tea like that.

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