Rory O'Neill on oil prices and airport travel times

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But we don't need this Iranian oil. The rest of the world does. And that's why we're seeing this big spike in prices. Yeah, I saw that the president was kind of throwing China, you know, tip of the hat by helping them get that straight-of-hormoos opened up as much as we disagree with China a lot. That had to be a nice diplomatic move by the president. Right. And you thought that, you know, they're delaying that upcoming trip. President Trump was supposed to be going to China very soon. But that got... put on the back burner. But the president has also given waivers for Russian oil to be sold, and that's upsetting a lot of our NATO allies. Because if Russia gets to sell oil at $100 a barrel, that means they're making a much bigger profit to fund their war with Ukraine. It's like, oh, gosh, it's like plain whackamol. Yeah, and I saw, what was it, 111, 112? I saw somebody said 114. But it's up from $70 before this whole thing began. Right. Now, it depends on what kind of oil you're talking about. If it's Brent crude, that's the expensive stuff. That is about $115 a barrel. WTI, the West Texas oil, that's closer to $97 a barrel. The difference is you can refine them into different products. WTI is more common. Brent is the sweet stuff, though, that is easier to ship. So, yeah, you sort of have to look at both numbers, but still, stuff. is higher because look at what's on TV. Pictures of thick black smoke, big fiery explosions at oil and gas facilities. And that's what's scaring investors out there. You know, and it's crazy. And we're all looking at the price of the pump. I think the national average right now is 384. That's the highest level since September of 2023. But I saw somebody made a comment yesterday. Hey, look, we're a month into this, okay? We made much bigger sacrifices during World War II when things were really, really bad. So keep in perspective. We'll be out of this soon. All right, let's talk about the traveling out there. It's getting a little clogged up, a lot clogged up these days at the airports. It is. You know, Democrats are digging in their heels, refusing to approve a budget for the Department of Homeland Security, which means TSA workers are not getting paid. And as you said, we're about a month into this. They lost their last full paycheck this past Friday. And a lot more workers are just not bothering to show up, calling in sick, especially if it's in a state where their kids are on school vacation. Now they've got to provide daycare if they were at work. I mean, think of that expense, right? I got to go to work for free and still pay for daycare for the kid. That math just doesn't work. And it's at a particularly busy time at the airports. It is spring break week. I think we're really going to hit the fan this Friday, Saturday, Sunday when all those spring breakers are trying to get home. 100%. No doubt about it. Travelers and airports across the country talking about their experience now with the current DHS government shutdown. Thanks, Democrats. How early did you show up at the airport ahead of your flight? Four hours. We wanted to make sure we could get through. I didn't think that it would take this long to get through this line. It's never this bad. This is honestly the worst travel experience I've ever had in my life. And as Roy said, yeah, this weekend could even get worse. You ain't heard about Modo Casino? Moto has real Vegas slots. Any game you can find on the floor in Vegas, you can play it on Moto. I like my slots hot. Modo's free to play like food stamps, in line at the grocery store, at a funeral, in trafficking.

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