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>> sandra: america's energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i'm sandra smith in new york. hi, john. >> john: i'm john roberts in washington and this is "america reports." the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the go...

To give a break to the oil companies, that is not even going to the consumer. so, that's the con. the pros very show biz. >> and let's put a number on it. the american public will get a $6 billion decrease for the prices at the pump as a result of this. but we are paying $334 billion more a year because of that 2.50 extra that we are paying by the biden gas tax. so this is a drop in the bucket, if you will, compared to what we are paying because of inflation. and it all comes down to the president decreasing supplies, he keeps talking about those 9,000 licenses, leases that have been sent out....

Venezuela. when it comes to venezuela, i would say we as the united states should promote our values and do things like recognizing the interim president. we have to keep in mind what is the best way we can affect the outcome we want? >> greg: so you are saying assassination. >> marie: sometimes the united states has tried to get certain outcomes by being too involved in other countries internal affairs, by supporting opposition leaders or revolutions. we have to keep in mind that we have a little bit of a checkered history here. the other thing i would bring up is the diplomats that are still...

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Allowed to float it would be higher. why does it matter? the higher the value of chinese currency the less attractive their exports are. take last year, between january and november of the last year, the united states imported $334 billion worth of goods from china and exported $280 billion of good. if the dollar, the value is up here and here is the value of the chinese currency, if it was allowed to float the value would come up, would it make some of those exports less attractive for us to buy and it would make it more attractive to buy u.s. goods. >> bill: so they are keeping american good...