>> a lot of countries don't have oil and they need u.s. to be producing oil. >> eric: every business school teacher and school professor in america, the case for drilling is this -- since the protests in the streets, the molotov cocktails and rocks. the price of gas has gone up but natural gas has gone down. why? >> it should be a wake-up call. i'm glad we're talking about it. this is such an important national security issue. here is the point about natural gas. silver lining, it turns out the united states is becoming the saudi arabia of natural gas. every time we are finding new procedures to get natural gas and new sources in. but as we speak, the environmental protection agency and interior department are preventing the mining and exploration and excavation of