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The president was embracing the keystone pipeline. the governor of nebraska, asked for a change in route and congress decided to take it upon themselves to politically deal with this. >> congress's fault? >> and keystone xl did not have a new route in place within the time frame that the president was supposed to-- >> now what, christopher. >> of course he had to reject. >> jamie: quickly wrap, angela. >> put it in another state. listen bottom line is this, every time you raise the price of gas one cent takes 1.4 billion dollars out of the economy. >> right. >> and when the voters go to the po...

It was about $45. that's real money. >> we're feeling it. >> and look, i know, i drive my car. i know that the second most expensive items in the family budget is the cost of filling a tank up. this is a bad situation. >> you're secretary of transportation. what do we do? t . >> the president has laid out a big, bold plan. i was at the georgetown university when he laid it out. the president has a vision. we're going to do our part to work with auto manufacturers to manufacture cars that get better gas mileage, that use more battery-powered. we're going to encourage people that buy cars to get...

>> yeah, back home in peoria i have a ford escape hybrid, which gets very good gas mileage because it's part battery powered and part combustion. i just bought a car here in washington. i got rid of a 1997 buick regal, which was a gas guzzler. and i just got a chevy malibu, which gets great gas mileage, i'm happy to say, almost 30 miles to the gallon. but look, even 30 miles to the gallon, when i filled up this weekend, it was about $45. that's real money. >> we're feeling it. >> and look, i know, i drive my car. i know that the second most expensive item in family budgets is the cost of filli...

You will emigrate from libya because petro will stop and tomorrow all foreign companies, all foreigners will leave. all petro companies will leave. petro will stop. from tomorrow there won't be any petro. there won't be any money. you won't even find a piece of bread. >> if you've filled your tank up in the last week you already know prices are going up. christine romans is here to explain more about the connection between protests and the price at the pump. >> between petro, money, and bread, right? look. you've got a situation in libya where this is actually an oil exporter, a member of opec...