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My letter is to the chairman frank lewis. it's me, melissa. i understand your job is a lot like hurting cats so job well done on bringing your republican colleagues to heel, by offering them that huge slice of snap reduction catnip. you all can rest well in the knowledge that if your bill passes, a deficit will no longer be burdened by the $20 billion of excessive spending and government inefficiency. except that it has a 90% efficiency rate. it does exactly what it was intended to do, put food on the table for those who need it the most. i know you're used to thinking about this in terms of l...

Natural gas is rising, that's why they will also -- the price of coal will also be rising. we already see that. so that will have an immediate effect on the global economy. oil is falling because at the same time japanese is a courtroom of oil and they will be consuming less over the next weeks and months. >> if you were to look for guidance as to the impact of cost on everything from natural gas to coal and oil because of the pictures and the realities of what's going on with this nuclear plant, peter, is there any way to calibrate the potential impact? >> i think we can talk about the direct...

Japan dictates what happens here. i think we should have always proceed with caution on nuclear power. when we talk about global warming, with the current technology we have no choice but to include nuclear energy in our energy plan. unfortunately, it's coal, it's oil, and it's nuclear power. we can talk about wind and we can talk about solar but we're not there yet with those energy proposals. >> before we proceed, i should mention that the mega panel is here. jamie floyd, sam sedar and a former new york congressman. with numbers that strike me, i don't care whether you use nuclear, coal, bur...

Either japanese competitors or inside of japan? >> well, clearly, peter hit it right there. the estimated losses for the japanese automotive industry, we're looking at something like $25 billion u.s. that's an estimate because production is shut down for the time being and they can't ramp up production. again, simply because there's an energy shortage. at the same time, of course, major construction firms in japan will gain from this infrastructure. infrastructure will need to be replaced. they need a lot of steel and concrete. we've seen it in the share prices in japan. >> thank you for the a...

Even if we just changed our efficiency rate, we could reduce our consumption by 50%. if you look at homes, 35% of home energy loss is through air leaks. are these problems solvable? >> yes, they most certainly are. thank you, dylan, for having me on your show. the grid is really a marvel. we depend on it. it's our back backbone. i'll add one more number to it. we're soç dependent on it, las year alone, disruptions in the grid, shutdowns cost us over $100 billion, just in those disruptions lo s alone. so the answer is yes. there are technologies out there that we can find that will actually i...