Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110514:12:05:00
When would this new drilling start. >> reporter: gas prices go up, polls go down, politicians act. a pretty strong correlation, my statistics professor back in college might have said. and so now members of congress, republicans, now the president trying to increase domestic production even while both sides agree, in the president's words, there is no silver bull tote bring down that price of gas in the short term. they're just going to have to rely on regular market fluctuations. the price of gas now $3.98 a gallon. republicans in the house passed bills to encourage more domestic production, ...