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Speaker 1: Alas epic furious showing up at the pump in twenty

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Speaker 1: of the Middle East policy landing on your commute. And

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Speaker 1: the administration needs to close this chapter before it becomes

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Speaker 1: a political catastrophe because you, as a voter, you're going

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Speaker 1: to remember this in November. Every gallon is a reminder

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Speaker 1: that foreign policy has domestic consequences the American people. We

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Speaker 1: are patient, aren't we, But we're also watching the gas

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Speaker 1: station signs as we drive around every single day, and

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Speaker 1: today we're looking at what three dollars and ninety seven

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Speaker 1: cents on average?

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Speaker 2: Yes, according to TRIPAA, the state average for the state

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Speaker 2: of Indiana three dollars in ninety seven cents. By the way,

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Speaker 2: that's four cents better than the national average, which is

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Speaker 2: four to oh one.

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Speaker 1: Hey look at us, But I'll tell you there's bad

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Speaker 1: news for Indiana. The uh A new report says that

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Speaker 1: the average gas price across the country is three dollars

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Speaker 1: and above, and several are above four dollars. We've been

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Speaker 1: price is rising faster than anywhere else. Are you ready

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Speaker 1: for it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, you've got the list. Yeah, I'd love to hear.

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Speaker 1: This Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, Arizona, and the other one in

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Speaker 1: the top five, the Great State of Indiana. It has

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Speaker 1: risen forty one point seven percent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: When before the incursion into Iran started, I think we

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Speaker 2: I can't remember specifically on that, but it was about

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Speaker 3: Now coming up by they're over thirty dollars over thirty days.

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Speaker 2: So a month ago we were looking at about two

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Speaker 2: fifty a gallon and now we're sitting right at about

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Speaker 2: top five. We're in the top five.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm winning.

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Speaker 1: But it gets even worse because you know what happens tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Starting tomorrow, Indiana's state gas tax will increase, meaning you're.

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Speaker 3: Gonna pay even more. Yes, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: When the lawmakers signed the new tax, the gas tax bill,

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Speaker 2: several years ago, they pegged it to the rate of inflation,

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Speaker 2: and so every year it's reevaluated as to you know,

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Speaker 2: where the gas tax should be, and we're seeing I

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Speaker 2: think it's an additional two point one sense that we'll

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Speaker 2: get added to every single gallon of gas starting tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Keep in mind, Indiana has one of the highest gas

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Speaker 2: taxes in the entire nation. Hey, not only are we

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Speaker 2: as far as high as gas taxes in the country.

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Speaker 3: We're crushing it here in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm crushing and I'm sure you do too.

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Speaker 1: This next hike starting tomorrow not due to the global conflict,

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Speaker 1: not world events. It's just a state level of tax charge. Now,

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Speaker 1: keep in mind, you as a wonderful driver and you're

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Speaker 1: doing so well, you're paying three separate taxes on gasoline.

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Speaker 1: You got the state gas sales tax, you got the

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Speaker 1: state excise tax, and then you have the federal gas

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Speaker 1: tax and seventy two cents per gallon. And that's before

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Speaker 1: any corporate or retail markup. And that's just a little

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Speaker 1: burden that the great State of Indiana likes to pass

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Speaker 1: is to help fund roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects across

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Speaker 1: the state. So if that's the case, why are we

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Speaker 3: What's going on there?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think this is why so many people are

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Speaker 3: This would be more tolerable.

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm not going to say I'm gonna be happy

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Speaker 2: Being in the top five in the nation as far

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Speaker 2: our roads and bridges, they're in great shape.

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Speaker 3: They're fantastic.

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Speaker 2: We got some great roads here, and then you know,

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Speaker 2: the bridges are in great Our infrastructure is crushing it. No,

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Speaker 2: that's it that it's the double frustration. It's the massive

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Speaker 2: pay for our roads, and our roads are it's like

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Speaker 3: Driving into work every single day, I feel like I'm landing.

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Speaker 1: On the moon every morning on my way into work.

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Speaker 2: If you were driving on the Moon, it'd be a

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Speaker 2: smoother drive. And the Moon's got nothing but you know,

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Speaker 2: So it was exactly three weeks ago that Mike Braun

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Speaker 2: was on March ninth that Mike Braun was asked about potentially,

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Speaker 2: you know, temporarily pausing the state's gas tax, and he said,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 3: What, You're not gonna make it go away for a

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Speaker 3: Let's see what happens.

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Speaker 2: Let's give it another two and a half three weeks

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Speaker 2: to see if this straight of horror moves gets opened

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Speaker 2: up and things in Iran settle down, and then we'll

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Speaker 3: So yesterday was three weeks since Mike bron made that state.

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Speaker 1: What have we heard from him?

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Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything yet.

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Speaker 2: And also, by the way, when Mike Broun made that statement,

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Speaker 2: gas was averaging three dollars and forty nine cents a gallon.

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Speaker 2: It's averaging three ninety seven now. So not only it's

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Speaker 2: it been three weeks, Governor Braun, uh, but the gas

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Speaker 2: price price.

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Speaker 3: Has gone up fifty cents high.

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Speaker 1: You're still waiting, is he still gonna watch and see to.

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Speaker 3: Wait and see attitude?

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Speaker 2: But we know, I mean, you interviewed Mike Braun when

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Speaker 2: he was running for governor in twenty twenty four, and

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Speaker 2: you asked him about the gas tax, and he had

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Speaker 2: no interest in talking about it because he said.

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Speaker 3: It was a use tax.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that may be why he's so so, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, just hell bent on going forward with turning

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Speaker 2: I seventy into a toll road, because again, that's just

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Speaker 2: a use tax. It's just a use tax. You pay

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Speaker 2: it if you use it, you don't pay it if

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Speaker 2: you don't. Still money coming out of our pocket and

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Speaker 2: going to the state government.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: So we've got costs rising everywhere, utilities, groceries, housing, even

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Speaker 3: And now this is exactly the.

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Speaker 1: Wrong time to be adding another burden at the pump.

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Speaker 1: Governor Mike Braun looking at you, buddy, you have the

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Speaker 1: authority to pause or adjust the gas tax. So maybe,

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Speaker 1: just maybe now's the time to do some action, not

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Speaker 1: just wait and see.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, I'll give him a little bit of

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Speaker 3: a pass.

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Speaker 2: We didn't know how long, and he wanted a pause

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Speaker 2: in this, and he said, hey, let's give it two

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Speaker 2: and a half three weeks and see where we're at.

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Speaker 2: And since then, gas has gone up another fifty cents

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Speaker 2: a gallon. And look, if you didn't want to do that,

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Speaker 2: just say that three weeks ago just say, hey, you

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Speaker 2: know what, that's not something we're looking at, but she

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Speaker 2: kind of dangled it out there for us.

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Speaker 3: And you even put a little timetable on it, said

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Speaker 3: three weeks.

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Speaker 2: Well three weeks was yesterday and so oh and by

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Speaker 2: the way, like you started this segment off, you said

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Speaker 2: that come tomorrow, the gas tax is going up another

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Speaker 2: two point one cents a gallon, So even more money

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Speaker 2: being given to the State of Indiana out of our

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Speaker 2: pockets from the gas tax. And keep in mind, like

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Speaker 2: you said, we pay three different taxes. We pay the

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Speaker 2: Indiana state tax, we pay the federal tax, and we

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Speaker 2: pay sales tax on every gallon of gas.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the governor's schedule for the week, and tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: the day that the gas tax increases, Governor Brawn will

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Speaker 1: be participating in the American Heart Association's National Walking Day.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be joining state employees on a stroll

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Speaker 1: from the Indiana Department of Health to the State House.

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Speaker 1: Now I appreciate that. I totally get behind the American

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Speaker 1: Heart Association. And isn't it ironic that they're going to

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Speaker 1: be celebrating National Walking Day on the day that the

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Speaker 1: price of gas is going to increase, that.

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Speaker 2: The state gas tax goes up by two point one cents,

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Speaker 2: it's because.

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Speaker 3: It can't afford to drive.

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Speaker 2: If they were to put all those people in cars,

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Speaker 2: American Heart Association wouldn't be able to raise any money.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the timing of that is almost comical.

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Speaker 2: It is a little ironic, isn't it that the day

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Speaker 2: that the price of the gas tax increases in this state.

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Speaker 1: He's out promoting walking.

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Speaker 2: And when we're talking about nearly four dollars a gallon

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Speaker 2: average in the state of Indiana, he's got a charitable

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Speaker 2: event that is associated with walking.

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Speaker 1: Walking