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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...

  September 28, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Sep 29   More than 1.5 million Florida residents are without power as Hurricane Ian is pounding the southwestern coast and moving inland. The hurricane was close to a Category 5 storm when it made landfall about 3 this afternoon, with the predicted 12-foot storm surge materializing near Fort Myers. It has been slowing since it hit land, but the damage, including to this year’s orange crop, is already considerable. This destructive storm highlights the distance between reality and the ideology that calls for getting rid of the federal government. As a newly elected congress member in 2013, now-governor of Florida Ron DeSantis was one of the 67 House Republicans who voted against a $9.7 billion federal flood insurance assistance package for the victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. Now, with Florida on the ropes, DeSantis asked President Joe Biden for an emergency declaration to free up federal money and federal help e...

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