Sep 10, 2026 · 29 min · 18 segments
Sisters Britt and Val Douroux cover the biggest headlines in news - squeezing the juice out traditional fear-based news networks to make the news fun and digestible. 👇 Watch, react & join the…
Fuel prices have hit a record high in the United States this Labor Day.
National averages are $4.14 a gallon.
I paid $5.
And I paid 560 and I was like, ooh, I stopped that shit.
Usually you just put it in, let the thing go.
But once it got to like 75, 80, I said no more.
Where were you? This was on the route to, it was Vegas.
So you had a little uptick in prices.
That's the crazy thing.
We are facing something generations before us never have.
And that is selective timing, location, pricing.
Affordability crisis.
It's like, okay, Uber,
I get your hustle.
But then when the surcharges hit, that's like a slap in the face.
The tech is making it a little too obvious that they're screwing the people.
What's
driving fuel
Hmm.
Drove up crude oil prices, but refining is also a major problem because, yeah, didn't we get a bunch of oil from Venezuela?
Don't we have a bunch in America? Was that not what the Keystone Pipeline was about? Alaska, we're sitting on reserves.
Texas, tell me it doesn't smell like oil in the air of Texas.
Oof.
Fuel prices have hit a record high in the United States this Labor Day.
National averages are $4.14 a gallon.
I paid $5.
And I paid 560 and I was like, ooh, I stopped that shit.
Usually you just put it in, let the thing go.
But once it got to like 75, 80, I said no more.
Where were you? This was on the route to, it was Vegas.
So you had a little uptick in prices.
That's the crazy thing.
We are facing something generations before us never have.
And that is selective timing, location, pricing.
Affordability crisis.
It's like, okay, Uber,
I get your hustle.
But then when the surcharges hit, that's like a slap in the face.
The tech is making it a little too obvious that they're screwing the people.
What's
driving fuel
Hmm.
Drove up crude oil prices, but refining is also a major problem because, yeah, didn't we get a bunch of oil from Venezuela?
Don't we have a bunch in America? Was that not what the Keystone Pipeline was about? Alaska, we're sitting on reserves.
Texas, tell me it doesn't smell like oil in the air of Texas.
Oof.
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