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People, especially in detroit were saying don't raise my cafe standards. that is part of what needs to happen in order for there to be a sensible energy policy. this guy's five-year-old hummer gets zero miles to the sdplal. >> exactly. >> he's paying a fortune to fill it every day. >> on the cafe standard front, that is, again, a critical part of an overall push that the administration could have in terms of a conversation with the american people. look, the reality of it is, everyone sits back on these issues until it becomes important to talk about them. it's only important when, what, the g...

Romney only has himself to blame for putting his foot in his mouth once again. >> i like the fact most of the cars i see are detroit made automobiles. i drive a mustang and pick up truck. anne drives a couple cadillacs, actually. >> that is kind of h his way of supporting the automobile loan? the guy with at least four family cars, really knows how to relit to the working folk of america, huh in he makes gaffes when he goes off script. but the things he says on script caused hundreds of auto workers to protest the speech outside the stadium. romney was bad mouthing the auto workers union from ...

$2.50 -- >> when? >> you don't need cafe standards -- >> all right. those are -- those are broad policies that are going to -- i understand that. but people who are going to the gas pump today, they want it down yesterday. and so i am curious i. right. >> is there anything you could do to get them down in the next month, the prices down? because the prices are going up. or is that asking something that can't be done? >> no. look, there is a big futures pricing factor in gasoline and in oil. they are very much affected by the uncertainty of the strait of hormuz and what iran has been doing. if ...

They bend over backwards to make a good business case for the businesses to work in. >> mike murphy? >> singapore works because it's a dictatorship. they don't have a democracy. they have cafe standards and extremely expensive -- why is it so much more expensive to make a car in detroit than in indiana? what we have to do and it's hard is put money into infrastructure. i agree with the president on the infrastructure thing. and we've got to have less regulation in the cafe standards and things like that. we need higher gas prices. that's what auto guys will tell you. >> i bring people together...

having it? >> it's not that simple. they have to come up with some compromise, some sort of plan that can pass the senate and go back to the house of representatives and pass there something that the president could sign that would allow the united states to raise the debt ceiling and avert some sort of financial disaster come tuesday. it's not simple at all, so they need to work together. the mainstream, main leadership, democrats and republicans, they need to find a way to come up with the bare minimum to get over this hump. it's a huge, huge obstacle, standing in the way of an mec...