Filling Up on Frustration

By Jon Greenberg on Tuesday, August 8, 2006.

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High prices at the gas pumps have many people grumbling about whether they will ever see cheap fuel again. Weâ€™ll look at whatâ€™s driving gas prices, how events in the Middle East are affecting the market, and if we can expect relief anytime soon. Jon Greenberg hosts. His guests are John Halstead, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Resource Economics and Development at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and Massood Samii, Professor of International Business and Strategies, Chair of the International Business Department at Southern New Hampshire University and former Chief Economist for OPEC in Vienna, Austria. We'll also hear from Russ Roberts, Spokesperson for ExxonMobil and Cary Funk, Senior Project Director at the Pew Research Center, which recently did a study entitled Americans and Their Cars: Is the Romance on the Skids?

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Executive Editor Jon Greenberg sitting in for Laura Knoy, talks with his guests John Halstead, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Resource Economics and Development at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and Massood Samii, Professor of International Business and Strategies, Chair of the International Business Department at Southern New Hampshire University and former Chief Economist for OPEC in Vienna, Austria.

Exchange producer, Keith Shields adjusts the mic for guest Jon Halstead.

Guest Prof. Massood Samii.

Exchange producer Tai Freligh signals Jon Greenberg that they are about to go live.

John Halstead on the air.