Coming up, as tensions with Iran and the west are rising, so are oil prices. Lisa Margonelli, Fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of “Oil On the Brain: Petroleum’s Long Strange Trip to Your Tank” joins The Takeaway to look at the affect Iranian oil supplies could have on the US economy in an election year, next.
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