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Price of fuel oil is going to be high. maybe you're better off taking a train. maybe there might be something that you could do a bus thing with. be smart, look around. do some homework. i think you will still be able to have a great summer. >> arthel: when can we see the prices get lower and will it be long lasting? >> it is a great question. i like this topic if we go back arthel, to 2008 when gas was $4.03, coming off about a dollar a gallon increase over the year before. by the summer of 2009 it had dropped down from $4.03 to $2.61. that was only in one year. for 2010 it also stayed pretty...

Two years. some say it could get higher. most driven by fear over fundament fundamentals. some of those fears were placated by opec coming out saying they would step in if the situation does get worse. that is changing the tune for them. before they said no way. remember aside from the suez canal which is a major shipping artery, egypt is not a major oil producer. what perspective does it mean for you and i? oil prices jumped 10 bucks, a 25 cent a gallon increase in gas prices. that could cost 270,000 jobs over the year. if oil drops $40 more, it would erase the income boost from the payroll t...

Would you favor increasing the gas tax? >> i don't favor increasing any tax. we have to look at all of the options. we obviously have a big democrat that to meet the highway bill expires at the end of may and there are $100 billion if a shortfall over what it takes to fund the highway trust fund at current level of operation. obviously we have to deal with that. in are a number ways to deal with that and those discussions continue and we will get to a resolution on that but it is important we fund infrastructure and our committee deals where that and plains trains and automobiles. >> let me in...