jeff flock life at a gas station in philadelphia. , to paraphrase the old brooks and dunn song, costs are going up at the pump particularly. $3.49 at the sunoco in philadelphia. 3.27, 3.28 right now if you round up in terms of the price of regular on the average in the u.s. up eight cents in just the last weeks. up 11 cents since this time last month. $1.10, $2.18 this time last year. the folks we talk to, whether it's in the well-healed neighborhoods or the inner city, other starting to get pretty upset about it. listen. >> $120? $120. >> that's a lot of money. >> i'm not talking about ebt or food stamps. $120 to fill up this truck. >> nowhere near it was. >> nowhere near. 2.25? it's ridiculous now. >> ridiculous now. where it's least ridiculous, we can show you those. seven states still under $3 a gallon led by oklahoma. $2.89 the average in oklahoma. where is it most expensive in the ten most expensive states are led by california. $4.43 the average gallon of regular. trace, we looked it up. in case you want the cheapest gas you ca

jeff flock.on the case and joins us live now from a shop in pennsylvania. jeff, take it away. nat, gas, who would have thought it be this high this quickly. reporter: its always been the cheapest way to heat your home, liz that's why most of america heats its home with natural gas. where does it come from? right behind me here. that is a natural gas drilling rig, owned by chesapeake energy, just one of oh, a whole host of them out here. they are drilling one more well, and then they are going to move it again there's multiple wells out there. the problem isn't supply. take a look at these numbers on how much supply appalachia has been giving the u.s. and the world, really. ten years ago, 2011, 5 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas came out. now, 10 years later, almost 35 billion cubic feet of natural gas, and that's six to seven times what it was, but the prices, look at this. if you paid last year to heat your home $572 and if you had the average home heated by natural gas, that's what you p

jeff flock following it all in pennsylvania. jeff? reporter: we've been watching it for a while particularly today, neil, as we look at the national average of about 3.28, 3.39, a dime more here in the suburbs of philadelphia. take a look at the price of oil though, all day today. trading mainly above $80 a barrel. about seven years ago we were trading at that level. no indication we're coming down anytime soon. as we said the national average for gas prices 3.28 right now. that is up 8 cents in just the last week, up about 11 cents since a month ago and the dollar and 10 cents since this time last year. yeah, if you look at the chart, nothing but an increase and it is almost like a frog in a pot i guess. we're starting to feel the heat though. we may be boiling soon. it is driven by the price of oil. if you look at the factors most analysts point to in terms of why prices for oil are rising, one, we got a recovery and we don't have a recovery, got a recovery in demand, not a recovery in supply. opec not really doing its part despite

jeff flock is in pennsylvania with the story. in appalachia, i think you would like it out here if you were here, dagen. nat gas drilling rig, maybe you see it back there behind me, that's what nat gas rig looks like here in appalachia. we're at the marcellus shale, if you go down a few hundred feet you get a rich source of natural gas. and of course, that's what most of america uses to heat its home. the problem is the price. take a look at the numbers on this. in the last year alone, up again today in terms of futures, nat gas prices up 119% in the last year and the problem is not production. they are cranking here in appalachia. take a look at the numbers on what appalachia is turning out in terms of the marcellus and utica shales. in 2011, about 4.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day. now, about 35 billion cubic feet. that's a six-fold increase. the problem is getting it out of here. cancellation of pipelines out of the shale to places like new york state, upstate new york, new jersey. those pipelines have been canceled

let's wring in jeff flock. n. jeff. >> reporter: i cannot top that, ashley, sorry. you see that number back there for premium, $4, that's plenty for me. yeah, $4 is high. and the national average right now, if you put the numbers up, yeah, rate bad there too, $3.37 now, the national average. one year ago it was just $2.16. that is an increase of 56% and, yeah, it's starting to get people's attention. the latest fox news poll, out just this horn, finds that 6 -- this morning, finds that 67% of americans find gas prices to be a major problem for this nation and if this economy. and 50%, fully half of america, says it's a major problem for them. those that don't see it as much of a problem, that's a pretty small number there if you look on the numbers. why is this? well, oil prices are up. why are oil prices up? some people say it's because we've taken the focus off oil and specifically exploration. news that exxon is now planning to dump a couple of exlo ration projects. and if you look at the numbers of the money

jeff flock with more from pennsylvania. , neil, to have natural gas be the cheapest way to heat your home in the winter. in fact, most of america does heat its home with natural gas. this is where they get it or at least a lot of it. this is the marcellus shale operated by chesapeake energy. they're drilling a new well there. they have drilled multiple wins in there as well. there's plenty of oil or gas out there. if you look at the numbers here in appalachia, the amount of natural gas they're extracting now to ten years ago is incredible. it's maybe six or seven times what it was. but you're going to pay for it. because there's great demand all around the world and the u.s. is an expert of liquefied natural gas now. look at the heating cost for a home heated by natural gas. last year it was $572 for the average home. this year they say it's $743. an increase of 30%. why is this happening? it's not because there's not enough gas. there's plenty in the shale be need the ground where i stand. the problem is getting to it the p

jeff flock is at a school in pennsylvania. he has got the latest. hi, jeff.hings have really changed in the high school cafeteria since i was in school. look at this, this is all fresh food here. fresh taco meat, black beans. the problem is, to who runs the school district here for 5000 kids for their food it is hard getting stuff. >> we never know what is going to come in off the truck. we're hopeful, we do everything we possibly can to insure students receive nutritious meals day in and day out. reporter: it is amazing, jackie, when they get stuff, they try to stockpile it, they are not sure when they get it. this was the teachers lounge or place where they eat. you commandeered this. this is the stuff you've been able to kind of squirrel away. >> there is a lot of commodities here we stocked up, insuring we have enough food for our students. reporter: survey done recently, that found almost all of the school districts in america are concerned now about supply chain issues. also you have trouble getting people. it is not just food. this is, what is this? th

jeff flock with a lot more on that. hey, jeff. reporter: going to have to go back to wearing rayon shirts, neil, if the cotton problem continues. there you go. that is one thing. here is another thing. this is natural gas drilling rig right here in appalachians here in pennsylvania. we're sitting on top of the marcellus shale which is a great source of natural gas but the problem is not so of what they're getting here, is getting it to where it needs to go. the problem with that, what is causing high prices or at least in part causing high prices the lack of pipelines to do that. take a look at this map. recently within the last year or so three different pipelines, designed to get marcellus shale natural gas to places like new york, new jersey, the penn east pipeline to take it to new jersey, the northern access pipeline was to take it to upstate new york, all of those have been canceled because of problems with permitting, environmentalists fighting it, local residents fighting it. we have plenty of gas. we don't have the abilit

jeff flock is live at a new jersey refiner with a hedge from the white house. house. jeff? >> reporter: they need help from the president, they say, this is the pbf oil refinery, getting an up close and personal look today. it is one of the green initiatives in place for a while, that is one that requires refiners to blend in earth medical school, 10% of -- earth thol, 10% of the gasoline that they sell. if you're not abled to do that, you've got to pay for credits for that. those were not designed to cost much, maybe 5, 10 cents or so. take a look at these numbers. right now -- or i should say in 2019, those credits cost about 16 cents a gallon n. 2020, 33 cents a gallon are on average. thousand they've ballooned to over a dollar a gallon which is essentially driving up the price of gasoline and potentially putting refiners like this one out of business. listen to the president exclusively on fox business. >> it's devastating to not only our company, but to thin that fills up their gas tank. program is broken, has been broken, and thousand it's reaching a point

fox business correspondent jeff flock takes a look tonight from pennsylvania. >> as perhaps you can see setting on yet another day of increased fuel prices, the sign back there behind me pushing $4 for a gallon of premium gas, tends to be higher in the northeast than the national average which comes in at $3.37, the average gallon of regular gas. one year ago it was $2, $0.16, that's a 56% increase and what that means of courses we've got a whole lot less money to spend on other things. one research group finds for every dime of increase in the price of a gallon of gas, it's $1.3 billion taken out of discretionary spending. leading up to christmas we will have because of high gas prices $35 billion less to spend on other things. according to the oil gurus, it's not going to change anytime soon. >> the only way i see that continuing to rise another couple of cents a gallon until we get relief in the crude oil market for more oil supplies returning, unfortunately this is going to be bad news for the consumer because the balance of 2021. >> that crude oil market is under some pressure beca

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jeff flock joins us. what shortages, how are they getting around it?t ridley high school in pennsylvania. i will ask the person who runs the food for 5000 plus kids, what are you out of? >> we are out of whole-grain chicken, paper products, vegetables difficult to source at this time. >> reporter: we are in the teachers lounge with stockpiles things you can get right now because you can get something your jumping on. >> stockpiling it right up, doing what we can to make sure there's no outages. >> reporter: not just food but trays you serve them on, you can't just use regular paper plates. if you give a paper plate with 6-year-old. >> it is good. couple it on to the ground and we have a catastrophe. >> reporter: you actually went to a location but to get these peaches q, you can't tell me where? >> i'm not sharing that information. that is confidential. i need to make sure we have for our students -- >> reporter: it not so funny in a lot of ways. it is a struggle, not enough drivers for trucks, not enough stuff. they are hungry every day. >> every day

come on in jeff flock. he is at a pennsylvania gas station.t this point. they still have money in their pockets, but if you have a job you an get one these days, it is like a frog in a pot it gets warmer and warmer. don't know when it will start to boil. put the numbers, up eight cents, 3.28, average. up eight cents in the last week, 11 cents last month. $1.10 more than last year. you mentioned those six states. funny, your buddy pat dehaan at gas buddy told us yesterday with eight. we made up a map with eight. it is already out of date. mississippi and alabama are the two that have now exceeded $3 a gallon. we have only six states. oak orb oklahoma, i said mississippi, i meant louisiana and alabama have gone over three. mississippi still among the lowest at 2.90 a gallon. highest states, no surprise to you probably. california, $4.43 in california. the other 10 maybe you see on a map there, hawaii, washington, oregon, the rest. makes you think back to the old brooks and dunn song, $4 and change at the pump, cost of living is high and going up

prices for natural gas are at the highest level in seven years they jumped 180% in the past year, jeff flockrning to you heading into the winter time very soon does this mean our heating bill is about to jump? >> i don't think there's any way around it i think were gonna see higher costs for natural gas this year most people use natural gas to heat their homes and it's a big chunk of energy, generation this is a natural gas well i want to give you an up close and personal this is a well being drilled in pennsylvania by chesapeake energy multiple wells drilled on the site this is the current one being drilled maybe you see some of the activity they have tanks where the natural gas that comes from them here in pennsylvania into those tanks, then they go on gathering pipelines to a processing facility, here is the problem the problem is not production this shale deposit it is rich with natural gas, the problem is getting it from here to the places where people use it, that takes pipelines. if you take a look at maps that we put together there are multiple pipelines that have been canceled in th

you got out of that pretty well, jeff flock. you're all right. of the national association of homebuilders. we got the homebuilder sentiment number up four points, very strong 80. i was surprised at that. i would have thought the labor shortage, the supply chain shortages kicked in to hurt your business? >> demand is totally driving it. there is still huge consume every demand in small cities and exurb ban areas that we're seeing a great deal of traffic a lot of people are interested. you're hitting nail on the head, stuart. i got home from the meeting of the national housing industry. builders from all over the country. the supply chain is going to be a major problem if we don't get it fixed very soon. everything from lumber to drywall, to concrete, to appliances, three, four months delays and the product all sits on the boats in ports around the country. it's a looming, looming crisis. stuart: how much does the supply chain problem add to the price of a house and the length of time it takes to you build it? >> obviously time is money. the longe

maria: that is incredible thank you jeff flock we appreciate it we will talk soon look at state of theg housing starts building permits out right after this. . when you're driving a lincoln, stress seems to evaporate into thin air. which leaves us to wonder, where does it go? does it get tangled up in knots? or fall victim to gravity? or maybe it winds up somewhere over the bermuda triangle. perhaps you'll come up with your own theory of where the stress goes. behind the wheel of a lincoln is a mighty fine place to start. maria: we'll we'll the septembering housing starts building permits out much worse than expected lauren simonetti with the latest. lauren: let me start with permits number this is future ground breaking on new going to be maria, what a disappointment. the numbers fell by 7.7% from the august, in september coming in seasonally adjusted annual rate 1.589 million units that goes to show you severe shortages of materials needed and labor so maybe we got a report earlier this week that home builders confident seeing big the demands could get through this may be they are pa

maria. >> jeff thanks very much jeff flock in pennsylvania joining me right to you to analyze mark zandiks for being here joining the conversation, mark, good to have you your thoughts on all this supply shortages as well as spike in prices that is impacting all americans. >> that is a problem maria by my calculation acceleration in inflation consumer price inflation has added about 175 bucks a month to the cost of living a year ago today you spent 175 bucks more a month an elect bill for most americans cable bill or cell phone bill so it is a problem. i think all goes back to the pandemic. if you are in the global pandemic, particularly delta variant has done a lot of damage to global supply chains particularly asia specifically in southeast air base where all supply chains begin people not sick factories shut down ports got disrupted illness fewer exacerbated things my sense that as winds down if my diagnosis is correct pandemic winds down feel direction it is headed these things will die themselves out the reporters reported irdon't think solved next week next month next quarter proba

very much, in the meantime no more so from the oil and gas and that part of the story regarding jeff flocknd personal look at the pbf energy refinery in south jersey one of the small independent refiners unlike the big boys, the exons, vps, chevron's they have or require requirement into gasoline, the cop located program that compelled them to do the folks who run the refinery so they can be put out of business if president biden does not relax the renewable fuel standard so they could not be penalized, take a look at the numbers in terms of what they pay and what it amounts to a penalty on the ethanol, $120 million, $325 million in 2020 and 2021 the first quarter alone another $283 million, these are penalties that does not change the amount of ethanol blended in, if they continue you have to pay these fines, they will guaido business. so the president of pbf energy exclusively to fox business appealing to president biden saying you have to do something, you have the power. >> he can do it with a snap of a finger they have been sitting on it for months he does not need 51 votes for the sn

steve: jeff flock joins us live from pennsylvania as some people are pointing to president biden for ut the focus is on wind and solar, and that's not totally here yet. what's here is natural gas. that is a natural gas rig, that's what it looks like here in the mountains of pennsylvania. most of america uses natural gas to heat its ohms -- homes. the price, though, through the roof this year. take a look at the numbers on this. as of friday the futures at the cme in chicago, up 119%. that's double the cost of the natural gas. so if you use it to heat your home, do the math on what you spent last year and what you might spend this year. the problem is not production. this is the marcellus shale here in pennsylvania. this is a tremendously rich source of natural gas. they've been producing it ten years ago about 4.7 billion cubic feet a day. now it's 35 billion cubic feet a day. that's a sixfold increase. the problem is getting the gas where it needs to go. the problem with that has been environmental regulations, permitting problems, it's canceled three pipelines, natural gas pipelines

jeffs. now, we're here cleaning up and rebuilding. >> reporter: but, the end of the story? no, not at all. because though his flock still the prophet. issuing edicts to its faithful followers now in neighboring utah and beyond. private investigator sam brouwer. >> they will do anything he says. >> leave their families? >> leave their families. they'll leave their children. they'll turn daughters over to old lechers. they'll do literally anything they're called upon to do. they see it as their path to salvation. >> reporter: and rebecca musser? to the lds faithful, she is an enemy of the work. does it hurt you knowing that many of them feel quite negatively towards you now? >> i'm sad that some of them do but i could no longer stay. it is not a glamorous part of getting freedom. there's a cost to that. >> reporter: when we last spoke, rebecca was working in real estate and had two children, but she was estranged from her own parents. her mother, she said, still wouldn't speak to her. her father, too. believed the teachers of the flds, though he no longer believed warren jeffs was the prophet. the woman once known a