We can tell Saudi Arabia's dictator and the most predatory oil companies to go screw themselves at the same time we do the best thing for an average working Americans.

The Saudi oil minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, just gave America a menacing warning about President Biden releasing oil from the strategic reserve to prevent an explosion in gasoline prices:

"However, it is my profound duty to make it clear to the world that losing emergency stock may become painful in the months to come."

Meanwhile — as US gas prices remain persistently high causing Democrats heartburn in this election year — American oil companies continue Trump's policy of exporting hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of crude oil and refined gasoline to Brazil, helping Bolsonaro keep his own gas prices low as he heads to his election runoff.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Why Is America Still Buying Saudi Oil When We Could Be Self Sufficient?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Saudis take 100% control of America's largest oil refinery" by Matt Egan.

Article: "As US oil booms, Congress lifts 40-year oil export ban" by Charlotte Raab.

Article: "U.S. Gasoline Exports Surge Even as Americans Pay Up at the Pump" by Lucia Kassai.

Article: "Exporting Fuel, Importing Insecurity" by Alan Zibel.

Article: "'Their Greed Knows No Bounds': Analysis Shows Ongoing Price Gouging by Oil Giants" by Brett Wilkins.

Law: "American Crude Oil Export Equality Act" by Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND].

Article: "U.S. Repeals Longstanding Ban on Export of Crude Oil" by Anthony B. Cavender, Thomas A. Campbell, Dan LeFort, Paul S. Marston.

Article: "Saudi blasts release of oil reserves 'to manipulate markets' in apparent swipe at Biden" by Agence France-Presse.

Article: "Average WTI price needed for U.S. oil and gas producers to stay profitable by well status in selected U.S. oilfields as of 2022" by statista.

Article: "U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle, Driven by Animosity Between Biden and Mohammed bin Salman" by Stephen Kalin, Summer Said and Dion Nissenbaum.

Article: "Putin Is Onto Us" by Thomas L. Friedman.

Article: "UN warns 'time is running out' as greenhouse gases surge" by Emma Farge.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Article: "Biden announces release of 15 million barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve" by CBS/AP.

Article: "Saudis take 100% control of America's largest oil refinery" by Matt Egan.

Article: "‘We don't need Middle East oil,' Trump says in Iran speech. Here are the facts" by Charles Duncan and Maya Earls.

Article: "U.S. Officials Had a Secret Oil Deal With the Saudis. Or So They Thought." by Mark Mazzetti, Edward Wong and Adam Entous.

Article: "Alaskan Oil Shipped to Japan?" by David Mikkelson.

Article: "History of the Venezuelan oil industry" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The history that chains Cuba to Venezuela's crisis" by Patrick Oppmann.

Article: "Citgo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden cracks down on ‘junk fees' in new economic focus ahead of midterms " by Betsy Klein, Maegan Vazquez, Matt Egan and Arlette Saenz.

Site: guides.vote.

Article: "'A Sobering Moment': UN Warns Planet Could See Cataclysmic 2.9°C of Heating by 2100" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "New woman says Herschel Walker drove her to abortion clinic: report" by David Edwards.

Article: "Fetterman struggles in rapid-fire debate format as he and Oz trade well-worn barbs" by J.D. Prose.

Article: "Who is Ginni Thomas and why is she important to the Jan. 6 hearings?" by Dan Cooney.

Article: "In 'Affront to Justice,' Thomas Shields Graham From Subpoena in Georgia Election Case" by Julia Conley.

Article: "Stephen Hawking" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Windfall Tax" by Julia Kagan.

Article: "Sanders Pushes for 95 Percent Tax on Corporate ‘Windfall' Profits" by Aris Folley.

Article: "President Biden claimed that there are 9,000 unused oil drilling permits. That's mostly true." by Yacob Reyes and Amy Sherman.

Article: "Mehmet Oz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is Alzheimer's Genetic?" by Alzheimer's Association.

Article: "ThorCon nuclear reactor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Hour Two: Why is the fed chair putting workers at risk?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book) & Host - Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff on Free Speech TV

Article: "Jerome Powell in the Spotlight as Fed Expected to Raise Interest Rates Again" by Tim Smart.

Article: "Sherrod Brown Warns Fed Chair That Rate Hikes Put Working-Class 'Livelihoods at Risk'" by Jessica Corbett.

Law: "Employment Act of 1946".

Article: "How two cutting edge U.S. nuclear projects bankrupted Westinghouse" by Tom Hals, Emily Flitter.

Article: "Solar panels could be on all Europe's public buildings by 2025, in phase out of Russian fossil fuels" by Maeve Campbell.

Article: "Amory Lovins" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine alleges Russian dirty bomb deception at nuke plant" by AP.

Article: "Deadly Russian strikes in Zaporizhzhia as Putin moves to take full control of nearby nuclear plant" by Olga Voitovych and Joshua Berlinger.

Article: "Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats warn Trump using midterms to seize power he failed to on Jan. 6" by Matt Laslo.

Article: "New Poll: One-Third of Likely Florida Voters Still Think Trump Won 2020 Election" by Sarah Rumpf.

Article: "Cheese, Bro' ...Chuck Grassley was in on the attempted coup" by annieli.

Article: "Manhattan Project" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "The Candidate".

Article: "Gasoline prices, US Gallon, 24-Oct-2022" by GlobalPetrolPrices.com.

Article: "$38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug" by KHN.

Article: "Immune system-evading hybrid virus observed for first time" by Linda Geddes.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iowa Poll: Chuck Grassley narrowly leads Mike Franken in US Senate race" by Stephen Gruber-Miller and Brianne Pfannenstiel.

Article: "Third rail" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Total Losses in Power Distribution and Transmission Lines" by jiguparmar.

Article: "Fetterman stroke sparks debate over what's seen as a disability" by Zack Budryk and Cheyanne M. Daniels.

Article: "John McCain, Sick With Cancer, Returns To Advance Bill That Would Deprive Millions Of Health Care" by Daniel Marans and Igor Bobic.

Article: "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Battle With Multiple Cancers Spanned Decades" by Alisa Hrustic.

Article: "Oz Argues Abortion Should Be Up To A Woman, Her Doctor … And Local Political Leaders" by Cristina Cabrera.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Unvaccinated Single Women Say 'No' To Vaccinated Single Men" by Laura J. Wellington.

Article: "COVID Vaccines Causing Death Can Be Proven" by Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn.

Article: "Biden's Destroying the Economy. Is It Intentional?" by Stephen Moore.

Article: "The Fetterman Scandal" by Michael Brendan Dougherty.

Video: 'What kind of snowflake is Donald Trump?": Raskin calls out Trump to answer subpoena.

Article: "A top Democrat ties Pence's ‘I'm not getting in the car' to Jan. 6 ‘coup'" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "Oil depletion allowance" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hoover Dam" by Wikipedia.

Article: "League Refuses to "Help Perpetrate a Fraud"" by League of Women Voters.

Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.

Article: "‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.

Article: "Suzan DelBene" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "Veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill" by Harry Truman.

Article: "CMS Redesigns Accountable Care Organization Model to Provide Better Care for People with Traditional Medicare" (ACOs REACH) by CMS.

Article: "Saudi firm has pumped Arizona groundwater for years without paying. Time to pony up" by Bruce Babbitt and Robert Lane.

Article: "Saudi water deal threatening water supply in Phoenix " by Rob O'Dell.

Article: "Crude Oil Prices - 70 Year Historical Chart" (select another period to see 2022) by Macrotrends.

Article: "Understanding the Direct Contracting (DC) Payment Model" by Joe Mercado.

Video: The New Medicare Advantage Plot Exposed Featuring Alex Lawson.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Robert Draper, Contributing Writer - New York Times Magazine and National Geographic Magazine / Author of several books including, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush & the just released, Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind

Plus, Larry Beinhart, Author of numerous books including, Wag the Dog (adapted for film in (1997), directed by Barry Levinson, w/an all start cast including Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, & the late Anne Heche among others... / Also, the recently released novel, The Deal Goes Down / Larry's work in progress is a yet to be published economics book, "The Rich Can't Be Trusted With Money"

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

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Is Fed Chair Driving Workers Into Poverty? Featuring Richard Wolff

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