prices. general jen steve, it s one report t. wasn t even credible, and look what it did. what should we expect if something more serious happens? well, this is the important question. if this really flares up into some kind of military strike, then, jenna, i would say that i wouldn t put out of the realm of possibility people facing $5 a gallon gasoline by the end of the month or sometime in april. we re very vulnerable to attacks, and disruptions in supply in the middle east. and any time that happens, as we saw it today, you see a shootup in the supply of oil and that translates into lower gas prices, and the thing that s very frustrating to me, jenna, is that i don t think we need to be so vulnerable to this middle east stuff, oil. i just got back from a two-day fact finding mission in north dakota, which as you know has the lowest unemployment rate in the country, it is an incredibly oil-rich state, it has more oil than saudi arabia has oil because of the new tracking fracki
joining us, the propublica reporter who broke the story. nice to have you back on the show. hi, rachel. the epa is not saying this water pollution is definitely coming from the fracking in wyoming. is there a reasonable alternate explanation as far as you can tell. there are a couple of alternative explanations. they all have to do with drilling if not the fracking process specifically. there are a bunch of waste pits that have contaminated the ground to some extent. the question is, have they gone into people s drinking water wells and what they announced this week, a thousand feet down into these monitoring wells? it s also possible there are other spilled substances from the drilling activities on the surface from trucks and so forth that have gotten into the wells. but they have they seemed to rule out agricultural causes which would be the other industrial activity in the area. no nitrates, no fertilizers, nothing like that. if in the big picture the federal government i
benzene at 50 times the safe level. they found something call eed 2, a chemical widely used in fracking. joining us, the propublica reporter who broke the story. nice to have you back on the show. hi, rachel. the epa is not saying this water pollution is definitely coming from the fracking in wyoming. is there a reasonable alternate explanation as far as you can tell? there are a couple of alternative explanations. they all have to do with drilling if not the fracking process specifically. there are a bunch of waste pits from drilling waste that are in the area that are known to have contaminated the ground to some extent. the question is, have they gone into people s drinking water wells and what they announced this week, a thousand feet down into these monitoring wells? it s also possible there are other spilled substances from the drilling activities on the surface from trucks and so forth that have gotten into the wells. but they have they seemed to
widely used in fracking. joining us, the propublica reporter who broke the story. nice to have you back on the show. hi, rachel. the epa is not saying this water pollution is definitely coming from the fracking in wyoming. is there a reasonable alternate explanation as far as you can tell. there are a couple of alternative explanations. they all have to do with drilling if not the fracking process specifically. there are a bunch of waste pits that have contaminated the ground to some extent. the question is, have they gone into people s drinking water wells and what they announced this week, a thousand feet down into these monitoring wells? it s also possible there are other spilled substances from the drilling activities on the surface from trucks and so forth that have gotten into the wells. but they have they seemed to
oil and natural gas, we have been using the fracking process, for those who don t know is a process whereby we drill vertically. now through mod earn technology can drill horson tally. pressure crack the rock and allow smaller deposit of natural gas and oil to be produced commericially. we have standard. we have developed the best practice in the industry. it s a safe technology. it s been concluded by the e.p.a. it currently got another study today. natural gas, the great finds we have in this country are a game-changer. we have created 57,000 new jobs. in just pennsylvania and west virginia last year alope. that is the potential of the oil and natural gas industry. to give an opportunity to produce. glenn: let me go there next. i want to talk about american innovation and i want to talk to steven who says you are from, you are from pennsylvania, right?