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Giveaways to the chrome growers? >> no, such as corn. its also natural gas. there are a number of different ways to make this fuel and whats amazing about is that in your opening you said that we are almost energy independent. between nile and election day, we can actually become energy independent if we move to e85. the farmers have stood behind them, theyve took stood behind the trade agreement, we could have a positive impact on the economy, consumers will pay $0.50 less per gasoline, the air...

Right now we were in a mode where we are thinking about emotions through the perspective of guilt from using a straw to eating a burger, and my part of the problem question we can certainly, yes. >> laura: this is such a route lowest hanging fruit here. if you can still eat fruits under this new set of rules but what about this? its like putting a man on the moon and feeding the? >> yeah but what we could do and im hoping the president is watching tonight, its voluntary. if our automotive compan...

Along with congressman shawn shimkus. i believe and he believes that every car that is manufactured in america ought to be flex fuel, meaning it would run on ethanol, methanol, anything that would help it to save fuel efficiency. other countries do this. it would cost $100 or less per car. we have natural gas in the united states. we can turn that into methanol. this is what we somebody doing, i think. brazil does it and its done in many other countries. i think we should study every energy poli...

Its very complicated. there are all kinds of demands, india and china are driving prices up, tensions with iran are driving prices up. to some degree, we are limiting what we can do. but we should leave no stone unturned. >> shannon: is that a bill that you could work for, something that would make all autos flex-fuel in the future? >> well, look, we have already tried the massive ethanol subsidies and they havent worked. but i am all for anything that can improve our nations energy solution. na...

Profit is nonsense and the president knows better than that. jobs are critically important but why dont we put investment into one of our nations biggest industries rather than bigger because we still importing almost half of our oil and why dont we produce more domestic oil four our needs and we can also take natural gas and turn natural gas interest ethanol if we have flex fuel cars and have more domestic energy creating jobs rather than in venezuela or nigeria, create them here in this countr...

High, $4 to $4.50 range you will see fuels like methyl become economical. and you have to -- this would be for mnew years, to have it retrofitted. alisyn: as i understand the flex-fuel vehicles as they are called can be made, for $100 extra per car. isnt that worth breaking our dependence on foreign fuel. >> heres my problem with what the industry is saying. what they want to do is require the auto industry to build flex fuel course and im not in favor of that and i dont think the government sho...

And help manage natural resources, during their orbits. gregg: new developments in the supreme court battle over climate change, a number of states suing power companies, trying to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. but, it is beginning to look like the supreme court might throw out the case, senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano is here now. judge, this wasnt about whether greenhouse gases cause climate change but, rather, who should regulate? >> exactly, gregg. the federal gove...

High tech gizmo and compact car and the price is right, about $22,000. im going to show you for the equal friendly -- for the. -- for the eco friendly crowd, this is not in the showroom this year, its going to hit next year, but toyota showing off the oce-friendly car with this, as well as many others. then of course youve got this sexy luxury muscle car. alisyn, this is for you, the mercedes benz cls, 5 feet 5-liter, v8-turbo, it goes up to 150-horsepower, zero to 60 in .3 seconds. i know that ...

Sales are picking up tremendously this year and on the show floor, this is something for everybody, so youve got entry level vehicles, fuel, economy, and of course the muscle cars are always a popular thing. >> everybody is talking about the muscle cars this year but gas is four buck as gallon in a lot of cities. >> thats -- the industry is really sort of taking off in technology like its never done before, so even this great amc mercedes benz is getting 32 percent better gas mileage than it did...

>> one thing that came up, i had a conversation in preparation for this. >> thats a guy who knows. one thing he discussed with me is the fact that theres a $240 or $50 part that prevents them from being able to use the flex fuel. brazil has mandated a change in the gas line. i asked the former director why it is that part in our automobile so we could have flex fuel to take everything hes discussing into any car in america hasnt been changed. >> theyve grown up together. they have relationships ...