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We got 1,600,000 signatures back in '08 when as you point out gasoline prices were up to $4. if we had started then, we would be inside the window you're now describing. natural gas production has gone up 11% since 2008. the price has crashed from $7.97 a unit to under $3. from 2008 to today, it's crashed. if you had exactly the same pattern in oil that you had in natural gas, you'd be paying $1.13 a gallon. i didn't project that. i'm not saying you'll get there, but that is literally the direct parallel to what's happened in the united states with natural gas in the last four years. >> let me...

Costs involved in war. >> chris: what would you do, sir, if 2008 had turned out differently? what would president mccain do? would you give the israelies a green light to strike? what would be wer your red lines to what you would allow iran to do before you would strike, and would you give diplomacy? we've got a european oil embar go against iran and new sanctions against the iran central bank. how much time would you give them to work? >> well, first of all, let me say that the president said he doesn't bluff. well, his national security policy is to prevent mas massac. he said it's unaccepta...

Good points in your interviewing with newt gingrich. number one, gas prices fluctuate under every president. they were over $4 a gallon under president bush not too far before he left office. these things go up and down regardless of party or president. there's only so much a president can do. number two, in the short run, the president supported the continued payroll tax cut in part to offset the blow that consumers are taking at the pump. that is one thing that could be done in the short run. in the long run, it's supply and demand. he's done some very good things with regard to demand, tryi...

The leadership team rick was in suffered a disastero us loss in 2006 because the company didn't want the bridge to nowhere and more ear marks. i think there's a principle difference, not just a label. what are you trying to accomplish? how do you think the system works? are you in the business to change washington, or are you just in the business to be part of a team? >> let's talk energy and 2.50 a gallon gasoline which has become the centerpiece of your campaign. how quickly do you believe you can get us back to that, mr. speaker? >> within two years, maybe faster. when george w. bush signed...

Not doable, and at what point do you -- by not doable, i mean you're not going to get an afghanistan, pakistan, frankly, we watch what's happening in egypt with the muslim brotherhood. look at the things going on around the region and then ask yourself is this, in fact, a harder, deeper problem that is not going to be susceptible to military force, at least not military force in the scale we're prepared to do, and if that's true, this is part of why i decided to make energy independence a major theme of my campaign. we need to decide that the united states is going to have to back off from tha...