Tucker Carlson

So here's the president, I think yesterday, explaining his view on oil prices.

It's 100.

I thought it was going to go to 200 or 300.

Really?

What would $200 a barrel oil mean?

Well, we've never had it.

We've never had, and these are adjusted numbers, we've never had $200 a barrel Brent crude, period, in world history.

But what would happen if we did?

Well, I don't know, $10 a gallon for unleaded at the pump?

What would that mean?

Well, it would mean inflation, possibly hyperinflation.

What would $300 a barrel oil, which the president said he imagined we could have, what would that mean?

Well, it's not even worth guessing because no one's even modeled it out.

No one's even taken the time to write out the formula or guess as to what effect $300 a barrel oil would have on human civilization.

But you can be absolutely certain it would be the end of a lot of things that we take for granted.

certainly air travel, jobs.

It would be a true disaster on the level of, I don't know, a national tsunami or hurricane.

It would affect every person in the United States making less than a million dollars a year.

It would crush people.

Already at a hundred bucks in the US, a hundred dollar oil, you just heard the president say it's 97, something like that.