Surging Gas Prices Shake Americans, and How Ted Turner Unleashed 24-Hour News

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  If you find yourself bewildered by this moment where there 's so much reason for despair and so much reason

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  to hope all at the same time, let me say I hear you.

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  I'm Ezra Klein from New York Times Opinion, host of The Ezra Klein Show.

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  And for me, the best way to beat back that bewildered feeling is to talk it out with the people who have ideas

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  and frameworks for making sense of it.

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  There is going to be plenty to talk about.

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  You can find The Ezra Klein Show wherever you get your podcasts.

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  On The New York Times, it's the headlines.

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  I'm Tracy Mumford.

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  Today's Thursday, May 7th.

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  Here's what we're covering.

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  How you manage fuel costs since the war and the spike in prices?

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  I mean, it's well below $3.

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  And then, let me see, within a week?

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  A week, it jumped up a damn near dollar.

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  Across the U.S. Gas prices keep ticking up, but the weight of that burden is not hitting everyone equally.

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  I mean, yeah, it's rough.

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  I mean, gas was the one thing that wasn't that expensive.

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  According to an analysis released by the New York Fed, lower-income Americans are feeling the worst of it.

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  My colleague Talman Joseph Smith talked with a woman in her mid-40s who drives for Uber and Lyft in Charleston,

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