3.54 a gallon and president biden is asking the saudis to pump more oil, and our next guest said let's put the brakes on this and drill more here. thanks for coming in on a saturday. let me read from a wall street journal editorial. how the biden administration is doing. they're trying mightily to defer a russian invasion in ukraine at the same time his regulators are working to give vladimir putin more leverage over global energy supplies. he's talking about more regulations on our own energy industry here, that's really cutting off pipelines and supplies that could make us energy independent again. >> absolutely. it's almost as if vladimir putin is in our-- in the biden administration plotting our energy strategy.