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Are collecting on your property? this is a man in northeast pennsylvania collecting water from a puddle bubbling up near his house. and then he's able to light the fumes off that water on fire. state officials think a natural gas energy company drilling in the area may be responsible for stray gas getting into the groundwater that's bubbling up there. here's what it looks like one county over from there. this is a geyser shooting methane-infused water up into the air. that's located by three natural gas drilling wells operated apparently by shell oil. images like that are the kind of thing tha...

If the media is going to be soft or if youy -- or fuzzy, be hard on everyone. i remember the fear with president bush this would disrupt the economic, expansion and certainly imperil his re-election, apply the same tough standards today. i will say this, though, we are seeing some of that apply. but why think enough. not with the same sort of real checking the facts, the drilling issue, our indebtedness to the middle east issue, i don't think the weak dollar issue and now that is contributing we are not doing our homework. >>guest: this is a lot of emphasis, now, on how it is not the president...

Do you think that is reasonable? >> we did this a year and a half ago. we traded up to $147 a barrel, it was very quickly fell off into the table from 147. it wasn't sustained. it was a drilling issue and things going on. you're right. you put $120 barrel on the market for any period of time. that means somewhere around 4.25 gallon gasoline, that is a lot of money out of consumer's pocket. that hundreds of billions of dollars that go directly shipped overseas to people that hate us. >> glenn: bring the lights up. >> so here we are today. 3.17 on the pump, average pump price. problem is the pri...

Do you think that is reasonable? >> we did this a year and a half ago. we traded up to $147 a barrel, it was very quickly fell off into the table from 147. it wasn't sustained. it was a drilling issue and things going on. you're right. you put $120 barrel on the market for any period of time. that means somewhere around 4.25 gallon gasoline, that is a lot of money out of consumer's pocket. that hundreds of billions of dollars that go directly shipped overseas to people that hate us. >> glenn: bring the lights up. >> so here we are today. 3.17 on the pump, average pump price. problem is the pri...

It's easy to look at that oil well and say my god, you can't keep doing that. no one would want to keep doing that. certainly wish we didn't have to drill for oil at all. i think it's a different conversation for a different day, but as it stands, it seems insane to prevent anybody from being able to work that lives there. >> if everyone in washington understood just half of what you just said, i don't think we would have this moratorium. >> well, lots of people have a point of view on this one. boy, did the e-mail box light up when i said what i said to senator landrieu yesterday. banderson s...