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  View in browser   BY  BEN LEFEBVRE With help from Minho Kim Gas prices are displayed at a Chevron gas station in Mill Valley, California. Gas prices continue to surge in California with the average price for regular unleaded over $2 a gallon more than the national average. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images OPEC FUELS DEMS ’  AUTUMN ANXIETY   —   Rising fuel prices are enough to give any White House heartburn. In that sense, the oil producing cartel OPEC today handed the Biden administration a bowlful of  Carolina Reapers . OPEC and its affiliated countries — a group including Russia known as “OPEC+” — said it will  cut its overall oil production by 2 million barrels a day starting next month  . Plenty of analysts are skeptical that it will meet that headline number, given that quite a few countries in that group were failing to hit their production targets, but even an expected real-world loss of a million barrels a day will cause gasoline pri...

    Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News CALL FOR SUPPORT! The organization is now critically short of funds. As of today more than 450,000 readers have visited Reader Supported News since the funding drive began, fewer than 220 have donated. The situation is serious. Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   FOCUS: Joshua Yaffa | Putin's Escalation in Ukraine Is a Losing Strategy Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker Yaffa writes: "On Wednesday morning, Vladimir Putin announced that the war in Ukraine is entering a new phase—or, at least, that was his intention." The push to claim new territory and mobilize more troops is unlikely to reverse Russia’s losses on the battlefield—but it could move the war into its most dangerous phase yet. O n Wednesday morning, Vladimir Putin  announced  that the war in Ukraine is entering a new phase—or, at least, that was his intention. His televised address contained three central messages: the K...

    10 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News SEPTEMBER HAS BEEN A TRAIN-WRECK FOR DONATIONS, SO FAR — We’re down a good 40% from where we were at this time last month. That’s one thing we did not need and cannot sustain or survive. With less than a week to go it is nervous time for sure. Time and operating capital are running out. We need some support folks. Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   FOCUS: Russian Lawmakers Call for Putin to Be Removed From Power Over Ukraine John Haltiwanger, Business Insider Haltiwanger writes: "Local Russian lawmakers in both St. Petersburg and Moscow issued calls this week for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be removed from power over the war in Ukraine - a potentially risky move in a country where dissent can lead to imprisonment or worse." L ocal Russian lawmakers in both St. Petersburg and Moscow issued calls this week for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be removed from p...