Matt Will

But are we prepared for all the places that we have it? Like, for example, in health care, for those of you who are on or know somebody on Medicare, get ready for a very, very rude awakening.

Dr. Matt Will joins us right now, economist at the University of Indianapolis.

Here's the latest numbers.

These were the numbers today.

So we know that the diesel is driving most of this, but the CPI itself does not break it out that microscopically.

Talking to Dr.

Matt Will, economist at the University of Indianapolis.

we have discussed how the war in ukraine and russia affects diesel diesel doing uh rush doing a lot of diesel refining not everybody does diesel refining it goes to a world market and it's still been allowed we don't have many diesel refineries as you discussed would you invest three billion dollars into a refinery knowing the next administration may want to shut you down because they're not believers in uh a world that utilizes oil they may still engage as my words the fantasy of green How much of this is the lack of refinery? See, as a bourbon guy, I'm always thinking distillery, but it's refinery.

I wanted to dig into both of those.

Dr. Matt Will joins us right now.

Economist at the University of Indianapolis.

Let's start, though, where all things start.

sure when you say the term eco-terrorist, you don't mean actual attacks, although it could mean that.

You mean the proactive lawfare, those kinds of things, to stop refineries from being built.

Talking to Dr. Matt Will, economist at the University of Indianapolis, this refinery thing I think drives everybody crazy.

Because we're not going to disagree with you about these people who are ecological cultists and claim you can't have this, you can't have that, you can't have the other.