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years. even if we re not able to break the monopoly price they re keeping it up because anyway. but i don t i must tell you, don t have a near-term answer. there s two things i could do. there s two things i could do. i could go in the petroleum reserve and take out and probably reduce the price of gas maybe 18 cents or so a gallon. it s still going to be above 3 bucks. and one of the things that i refuse to have happen because i didn t want anybody i made a commitment if you pass the stuff i m talking about not one single penny in tax would go against anybody making less than 400 grand. and so if you notice these highway bills are not paid for by gas tax. they re paid for by direct expenditures in other areas. the average person doesn t have to pay more. it s going to be hard. it s going to be hard.
happen in terms of gas prices as we go into the next two or three years. even if we re not able to break the monopoly price they re keeping it up because anyway. but i don t i must tell you, don t have a near-term answer. there s two things i could do. i could go in the petroleum reserve and take out and probably reduce the price of gas maybe 18 cents or so a gallon. it s still going to be above 3 bucks. and one of the things that i refuse to have happen because i didn t want anybody i made a commitment if you pass the stuff i m talking about not one single penny in tax would go against anybody making less than 400 grand. and so if you notice these highway bills are not paid for by gas tax. they re paid for by direct expenditures in other it s going to be hard. it s going to be hard. the possibility to be able to
sean mcgarvey is here. very good to have you. thanks, neil. neil: what do you like about what the president is outlining here? a lot of spending and initiatives. goes beyond roads and bridges. what do you think of it? we love it. it s long past a major investment outside of the usual highway bills and other public infrastructure bills that are recurring on capitol hill. we need a big boost and this is the opportunity to do it. what does it mean to you as far as the fact that this president knows unions well, worked with unions well? the building trade and what have you? he speaks your language. there s no question that he has spend his lifetime in our business. so it s a unique opportunity to have somebody in the oval office that knows it and loves it. it s a great opportunity for us to work with his administration to help shape a proposal that not only builds the nation s
i think at the end of the day the u.s. senate should be a venue for debating the most important generational challenges we face. we re not doing it right now. and the people have a right to be frustrated about it. in your speech you noted, quote, to the grandstanders who use this institution as a platform for outside per suits, few believe the country s nudes are as important to you as your ambitions. you seem to be talking about those who are running for president, no? jake, you ve been around this place for a long time. the term grandstander on any given day could apply to somewhere between 80 and 95 of the senators around here. what i m decrying is the short termist impulse that i think is present among those of both political parties who try to reduce everything to some sort of immediate good versus evil fight about short term issues. we re going from five-month to three-year highway bills around here. we should be doing ten-plus year infrastructure planning. and we have thes
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