political advantage and political problems probably. if it starts to impair the recovery and consumers change their habits so drastically they depress demand he is in real trouble. to talking about big oil as a boogie man is not going to get him anywhere. it will make the base happy. they are with him. he has 43% of the country. he needs the rest. >> bret: charles? >> he is arguing about increase the production. as steve indicates, bogus one. it's in spite of the policies. there has been a decrease in the permit issued on the federal land. what we lived through is a boom. a gold rush in oil as a result of the discovery of a new technique, fracking technique. horizontal drilling which has given us a boom in production of shale oil. has nothing to do with obama. if anything, the e.p.a. is trying to restrengthen. that is why the production is up. in that environment, we should