President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he'd tap the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to tamp down spiking gas prices. The rise in costs comes in conjunction with the president's less-than-stellar popularity numbers.
On this episode of River to River, host Ben Kieffer speaks with two political scientists about the impact that gas prices are having and the extent to which making 50 million barrels of oil available will meet smooth the mismatch in consumer demand causing the highest gas prices in seven years.
Guests:
- Jim McCormick, professor of political science at Iowa State University
- Tim Hagle, associate professor of political science at the University of Iowa
