winter unless we produce a record amount of natural gas. the other concern about that, of course, is if we don t get to that level, your air conditioning bills are going to be higher all summer. now, i know, neil, you were complaining there s no signs of spring anywhere. i did see a sign of spring. gasoline prices are starting to go back up. as they dwindled down with winter supplies. when gasoline prices go up, you know spring can t be that far away. i always wonder how long that will last. you made me cynical and jaded. thank you, my friend. you re the best. boy, has he been pressing it at every turn. every turn, it s scary. meanwhile, let s say a lot of your parents didn t giggle when i mentioned the two friendly apps from google. we had to clean some of the tweets up, but not a lot of happiness going up.
jim, thanks for getting up a little bit early. you re one of my favorite people to follow on twitter of late, especially looking at this race. if wendy greuel wins tomorrow, how will she have pulled the upset? well, it s kind of interesting because she really started out as the frontrunner, but with all the independent money and all the special expenditure money that she has with all the endorsements that she has like from president clinton and from barbara boxer, the u.s. senator. she really was sort of the candidate to beat and it s been kind of an upset that she s in this come from behind role. i think the major thing that happened you have the department of water and power here and the city-owned utility that has poured a ton of money into her race and people don t like their city utility where it gets quite hot in the summer and people pay high water and air conditioning bills. she has been tied to the dwp and hurt her here in her home base in the valley. so, we basically have
air conditioning bills. so it helps consumers. the problem the reason we haven t done more of this is because it s requires some capital on the front end. a lot of school districts, for example, would love to retrofit eir s chools, but they re having problems just keeping teachers on payroll right now. so they always put off those investments. one of the things we tried to do through the recovery act and something that i know that jerry and jim have been interested in is something called home staenr that we ve been working on is to essentially provide families as well as small businesses, as well as institions like schools hospitals grants up front where we say, all right, we re going to give you $10,000 to retrofit yo building or your house, and then you re going to pay us back through your savings on utilities over a five-year period, for exame.pl so that over time, it doesn t
you ve got a one-party controlled white house, senate and house of representatives, have they? add to that they epossess the healthcare plan. a majority oppose what obama passed, they oppose the stimulus package and spending and cash for clunkers. they oppose bailouts. on legislation after legislation after legislation, regardless of your political affiliation, american people said no to virtually all of the obama agenda. so while barack obama still has a positive personal favorability, where he stands and where congress stands, the american people are saying no. that s why, closer to the election. the likelihood of republicans capturing a majority of the house increases. brian: frank luntz, thank you very much, sir, as always. pleasure. brian: your tax dollars at work. dead people. thousands of them. getting government help to pay air conditioning bills.
we ve got one of the finest members of the united states senate that you could hope to have in ben cardin. congresswoman donna edwards is here. and county executive rush baker is here. i want to thank all of you for coming out here today. now, i just finished learning about some of the work that you re doing here at this community college to make sure that homes are using less energy and helping folks save money on their heating and air-conditioning bills. and i was very impressed. i m even more impressed because i know this program is giving a lot of people a chance to make a