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Actually do this in a way that is not a bunch of political nonsense, but actually develops natural resources and green energy resources in our own country? >> well, today he could have said the natural gas act is ready to be voted on. that's hr1835, and that is the act that we need, the action that our congress needs to take to move us to natural gas for transportation fuel. and that is headed by congressman john larson from connecticut and dan born from oklahoma. that is ready to go. 143 co-sponsors split 50/50 between democrats and republicans. that -- that would pass very quickly. >> why do...

Marge nal impact that offshore drilling would have on actually reducing our dependents on foreign oil, that's very theatrical and gratifying emotionally and largely useless when it comes to displacing our dependents on foreign oil, do you see the political value to this president or anything else as being worth the environmental risk as you assess it? >> no. this plan from friends earth perspect civ very disappointing for this president. candidate obama should be lecturing president obama about what the real plan should be, which is investment in clean energy, renewable energy, energy efficien...

Between those who would claim drilling of a cure-all and those claim it have no place. >> and that means gathering energy from other sources. right now, more than one-third of our energy, transportation, electricity, comes from petroleum. largely for transportation. we generate electricity a variety of other ways, natural gas, et cetera. 7% of energy, as you see here, comes from renewable arenas. think, wind, solar, rain, turbines you pick it, very small. the president today also proposing investments in clean coal technology, advanced bioflews -- biofuels, excuse me, and the expansion of cour...

>> i guess where i dispute that is how -- how do we break our dependents on foreign oil when the total available oil in the reserves that were just opened up, according to the eia, if we're able to extract all it which may take around ten, 12 years which is 7 billion gallons estimates. consume in a single year in this country. once again the politics of drilling ahead of this summer driving season, are one thing, an argument that this is a comprehensive energy strategy -- or even part of it -- to get us off of foreign oil. looking at those numbers strikes me as suspect. am i missing something....

Rolled out the so-called pickens' plan converting the u.s. from oil production comes, is largely consumed from foreign sources or even if we were to do all of this drilling would provide us if maybe we're lucky a year's worth of oil to natural gas, for which we are equivlent to saudi arabia and then some. ault with us eric peca, president of the group friends of earth which is lobbying against this plan. t. boone, i'll begin with you, is this a valid solution to our energy problems, what you saw today, the drilling and the rest of it, or is it a political trick of some kind? >> well, you know,...