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>> sandra: america's energy crisis, president biden will ask congress to suspend the gas tax for summer. critics say it will have little impact on american wallets and could make the inflation situation worse. hello, welcome, everyone, i'm sandra smith in new york. hi, john. >> john: i'm john roberts in washington and this is "america reports." the president will request a three month suspension of the gas tax through september, currently $0.18 a gallon for gasoline. $0.24 a gallon for diesel. studies show a move like this does not save people all that much money but does cost the go...

Infrastructure president. he has already spent this money, and of course it would drive up inflation because if he thinks he's going to go pull the money from somewhere else, where is he going to get it? taxpayers are overtaxed, the government is overspent, the spending is out of control and to say such a thing is ridiculous. start drilling, go back to being energy independent, restart keystone, would have been finished by this fall if he had not stopped it. open up alaska, open up offshore, go back to fracking, give drill permits for people that hold leases. that's how you address this. do no...

>> so the gulf of mexico has been under exploration and under oil development for decades, since the 1950s. and by contrast, you know, the arctic does not have -- the u.s. arctic anyway doesn't have pipelines. it doesn't have production facilities. so any oil company doesn't just have to find the crude that they want to produce and sell. they need to find a way to get it to market. so they have to build all of those facilities. and that's an extraordinary undertaking. the amount of environmental analysis that would go into it is huge. it's quite costly. >> so is there a ripple effect to this? ...

By contrast the arctic does not have -- the u.s. arctic, anyway, doesn't have pipelines. it doesn't have production facilities. any oil company just doesn't have to find the crude they want to produce and sell, they need to find a way to get it to market so they have to build all the facilities. the amount of environmental analysis that would go into it is huge. it's quite costly. >> is a ripple effect that shell isn't going to do this. does this mean that no one is going to be drilling in the arctic or somebody else is going to take a shot at this? >> there is some drilling in the russian arc...