look at that for the price of oil. straight up. the price of gas is $3.52 today and going up a lot more in the very near future. >>steve: what i learned at the stuart varney school of economics is the fact that the reason it goes up is because we have to get a lot gas -- of gas over there. if we have it here and we extract it out the ground, the price would be lower. >> why don't we aggressively go after our own oil? >>steve: you know that. the environmentalists. >> that is precisely the reason why. the environmentalists do not want us to take oil from canada. it is supposedly heavy oil and is bad for climate change. they don't want that. so they stopped the pipeline. and the president who is under pressure on a variety of fronts, whether it is the i.r.s. scandal, foreign policy, obamacare falling to pieces, he needs to shore up his base and the environmentalists are his base, so he continues to delay on approving the pipeline. >>steve: you know something i just have never