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Oil Prices Are Still Down, But Are Prices Dropping At The Pump?

NPR

Published August 12, 2015 at 1:33 PM EDT

Gas prices are low, but are they low enough?

Oil is down to a six-year low of $43 per barrel, so why aren’t gas prices dirt cheap? And how will these prices translate to the airline industry?

Marilyn Geewax, NPR’s senior business editor, speaks with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson about where gas prices are going.

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Marilyn Geewax, NPR senior business editor. She tweets @geewaxnpr.