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Oil Hits $100 a Barrel

Oil prices hit 100-dollars a barrel for the first time Wednesday. Alex Chadwick talks with Tim Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspective, about what this means for the economy. Then Madeleine Brand talks to Steve Jordan, who owns an oil company and used his knowledge to drill a well in his front yard in Louisiana.

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