this is what the president s agenda is. megyn: the viewers can decide who is right about that chris, but the point is, this is very much a political issue and a big one coming up for election 2012. it s huge, and the president knows it, and in this speech tomorrow down in florida, and other place, the president is going to is have to make the thargt his plan, though it does not do much or anything to bring down gas prices in the short term is worth doing because it helps transition the country in the long term, away from petroleum. but here s the problem. people have heard that too many times before and may not believe him. mismischris stierwalt, thank you sir. yes ma am. megyn: to give you perspective on how this affects you, we have calculated how much it costs to fill up a mid sized car, in orlando, the average person spent $57 a week to fill up their car, now $10 a week more to do that. it winds up being more than $110 bucks a year to do
fixes but look it, this number is climbing and climbing and now people saying as high as $5, there s not much the president can say or do to quell the anger and unease that s going to spread but the electorate. megyn: he s already taking heat supersome on the right or otherwise that he should have approved keystone, that the pipeline was one way to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, get oil from our neighbor, canada a. friendly neighbor to the united states and didn t do it, essentially said no to it, he has said no, and yesterday the white house had this take on keystone, chris. listen: in terms of keystone, as you all know, the history here is pretty clear. and the fact is that because republicans decided to play politics with keystone, their action essentially forced the administration to
mig chris stierwalt is digital politics yesterday toornd host of power play on foxnews.com. chris, there are no magic solutions. that was after he said not long ago, there is no silver bullet. now we learn that the president is going to give a speech on this issue tomorrow in miami and we know the white house has been watching gas prices very closely. in the end we can expect that speech in miami will probably not lead off with there are no magic solutions and there s no silver bullet. the president has to do something or at least make it look like he s doing something. well, that s right. you know, look busy is sometimes the watch word in politics, act like you re doing something, even if there s not too much you can do about it. we just heard today mike emanuel on the hill telling us that democrats in congress are now increasing the pressure, and this is something we predicted, on the president to pass the strategic oil reserve, that s something he can do, there are other small thi