‘America Last’: The True Cost Of Skyrocketing Gas Prices
March 2, 2026
615,911
16,146
3,713
3.22%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
More Perfect Union Episodes Around March 2, 2026
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
12:55Now Playing‘America Last’: The True Cost Of Skyrocketing Gas Prices
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelAmericans households paid at least $12 billion more for natural gas last year than 2024.
The culprit? Record-breaking exports sending energy overseas.
We traveled to Louisiana to see how fishermen and their families are getting squeezed in the quest for greater profits.
Correction:
FISH stands for Fishermen Involved in Sustaining our Heritage.
Credits:
Producer: Paul Blest
Host: Drew Hawkins
Editor: Ian McKenna
Videographer: Justin Feltman, Daoud Qamar, Jared Cliff LaReau
Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya
Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens
-----
More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.
To support our independent journalism, subscribe, donate, and follow our other pages through the links below:
Help fund our reporting
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.