and it would be a huge boost for him to be able to say, look being, i've got this done. not to mention certainly the white house believes that it will help the economy and having some help for the economy right now is critical for him going into what seems like a long way away, but isn't really. the 2022 midterm election. >> and on that point, you write this week that the biden administration is probing why gasoline prices aren't falling. does this suggest at all a concern with respect to inflation or is this just something that i guess repeats itself, a cycle of gas prices all the time? >> reporter: well, the president expressed, and they have expressed it before, the -- i think what he was saying is that why are gasoline prices not going down at the same right that they are going up when there are these various pressures on the world economy, and the president has himself put pressure on opec and its allies to increase production. you know, when you are the