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Now sounds more like president bush. >> we need to take action now to expand domestic oil production. >> american oil production is the highest that it's been in eight years. >> critics say the president is taking credit he doesn't deserve, since new oil wells take 5-15 years to come on line, and most u.s. production gains have come off private, not federal, land. >> that's really why you're seeing an increase in production. it doesn't have anything to do with government. >> democrat dan born says the president's political receipt vehicle not in policy. >> over the last three years, we've open...

>> critics say the president is taking credit he doesn't deserve. oil wells take five to 15 years to come on line and most gains are on private, not federal land. >> that's why you're seeing an increase in production that doesn't have anything to do with government. >> democrat dan born says the rhetoric is not reflected in policy. >> over the last three years we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration. >> but also closed millions of acres. in 2009 and 2010 the u.s. issued the fewest onshore lease ins decades. >> i'm directing my administration to open more than 57% of our ...

House just introduced a bill to push our nation's transportation sector, a lot of those big rigs that haul all our product, away from gasoline and convert their engines to run on compressed natural gas. they argue america has enough natural gas to meet our energy needs for the next 100 years. and it could potentially create more than half a million american jobs. congressman john larssen of connecticut introduced this bill. it's good to see you, good morning. >> good to see you again. >> it sounds too good to be true. why isn't congress jumping on it? >> this bill has been out there for a whil...

Vehicles instead of oil. they were even joined by t. boone pickens, a businessman who made his fortune on oil. but who is out there making the simple point that we can't simply drill our way out of our energy problems. >> how close are we to a real conversation with the natural gas legislation that's proposed this week, with the president's speech this week directly referencing you, and how close do you feel you are in the scope of what you've been through the past three years? >> we're close. but this is what we've worked for. we've finally advanced in the congress. he was talking about 150 c...

No problems there but one of the things we were waiting to see, how many democrats would cross over and vote for the full repeal. in the end, just three of them did and here they are. oklahoma's dan born, north carolina's mike mcentire and mike ross of arkansas. but 10 house democrats who voted against the original bill would not sign on for this repeal and that shows it could be pretty tough for republicans in the senate to win over just a handful of democrats they would need to get something passed there. back to you guys. >> all right. yeah, it's going to be interesting to see where this go...