now back to our special. [ applause ] >> eric: welcome back. for months we have been feeling the strain on our wallets. what is president obama doing about it anyway? >> gasoline and oil, the life blood of american economy. we rely on it to harvest our food. there is an oil and gasoline footprint on everything we do. oil and gasoline matter to us a lot. since president obama took office, gasoline is up over $2 per gallon, that translates to nearly half a trillion dollars stripped from mainstream americans and deposited into bank accounts of middle eastern sheiks and people like mahmoud ahmadinejad and putin in russia. why would the obama administration ignore a massive and unprecedented increase in