accept is inaction in the energy debate, and yet, that s where we are. well, he joins a long list of presidents who have failed at this. but i just think the natural gas point is an essential point. wherever you go around the country, western pennsylvania, oklahoma, texas i ve been a lot of places where we re finding new natural gas deposits here. it seems to be the future, even though it s the fuel of the president. the problem is, we don t have the infrastructure to really exploit it, and i think this is an area where we have to get over our aversion to fossil fuels and our fantasy that we re going to live off solar and wind, which we re not. that s an intellectual leap that the political class has to make. anita, how much does this hurt, gas prices? from talking to white house advisers, even more than jobs right now, they know his approval is tied to gas prices. gas prices when they go up, hurt any president. we saw this with bush. we ve seen it for a long time. i think to d
accept is inaction in the energy debate, and yet, that s where we are. well, he joins a long list of presidents who have failed at this. but i just think the natural gas point is an essential point. wherever you go around the country, western pennsylvania, oklahoma, texas i ve been a lot of places where we re finding new natural gas deposits here. it seems to be the future, even though it s the fuel of the president. the problem is, we don t have the infrastructure to really exploit it, and i think this is an area where we have to get over our aversion to fossil fuels and our fantasy that we re going to live off solar and wind, which we re not. that s an intellectual leap that the political class has to make. anita, how much does this hurt, gas prices? from talking to white house advisers, even more than jobs right now, they know his approval is tied to gas prices. gas prices when they go up, hurt any president. we saw this with bush. we ve seen it for a long time. i think to d
we saw this with bush. we ve seen it for a long time. i think to david brooks point, though, washington has a habit of thinking, well, because an energy bill didn t pass in the last congress, therefore, there is no energy problem now because we didn t pass a bill to deal with it. this is what the presidents since, you know, richard nixon has been talking about, we don t have a comprehensive energy plan. i think the white house, when the president went out in his state of the union and outlined his clean energy standards and other ways to achieve that independence from imported oil, i think people were like, what s he doing, why is he bringing this up again? he s very committed to this. and frankly, it is part of the economic future of this country that s going to create the jobs, that is going to help bring the middle class forward again, and that s what the argument s about, david. right. i mean, that is really where the goals are. and the problem is a lack of consensus. ther