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Self-sufficient in our oil needs. we'll be part of the global marketplace. but imagine if it had four or five million more barrels a day from this hemisphere. then add the jobs. a million new jobs. tax revenue would boggle your mind. it's over 127 billion in new tax revenue. instead what is happening we're seeing this less production as we were talking about on federal lands, a lot less. just in the gulf of mexico, 230,000 barrels less production last year. that alone we could have $5 billion from the lost production we're having but instead. let's tax the industry more. we are heavily taxed i...

>> countries like china, south korea, japan, rely on iran for roughly 10% of their oil needs. if these countries decide to not buy iranian oil, how easy is it for them to be able to replace their supply? >> well, the world has about 3 1/2 to 4 million barrels of spare capacity. iran currently produces about 3.5 million barrels of exports, about 2.5 million barrels a day. if we lost that 2.5 million barrels to the market, effectively, saudi arabia would have to step in and make up for that shortfall. the problem is, the saudi crude is of a different quality to the iranian crude and what that me...

>> the idea that we move forward -- >> not a defense of bp, i'm just saying. >> we move forward -- >> we're drilling which isn't a practical necessity. i would dispute your premise to begin. offshore drilling provides a very tiny percentage of our oil needs. where is the urgency and why aren't you displaying the same kind of urgency to get us on clean energy. that's obviously where we need to be. we had a massive wake-up call. since september 11, in terms of energy addiction, and we need to respond to it accordingly. and that means that we need to get to where we aren't even having this debate...