megalopolis. neil: pushing heating costs higher. the price of natural gas hitting a seven-week high in a very frigid chicago. what it means for everybody. phil, from the looks of you, i a lot. heating oil has hit the highest level for the year today. but really the concern, neil, is the northeast. unlike the rest of the country that has been able to benefit from the fracking and the production of natural gas, the pipelines haven t gotten to new england yet. take a look at this. if you look at the price discrepancy because what you are paying in new york city, where you pay 22 million metric btus versus chicago of 370. that shows the impact of this. but around the north east, the department of energy has warned because of declining production in canada of natural gas and the inability to get the cheap fracking gas to the northeast,
forward, what do you think our extended policy will be? whether we pour good money in libya and egypt? or re-assess it entirely? i think that there is going to be an entire reassessment, neil, about putting money into places that will continue to be a threat to our national security n. regards to israel, though, israel is america s strongest ally, if they are operating a base in the region. in the middle-east, we share information, we share intelligence, we share technology, we share training, we have a joint terrorism military center. at the end of the day, the entire policy needs to be focused on the countries and we will continue to focus on the true ally or the asset to america, which is israel. i think that countries like libya and other countries that just don t have a grip on their security it s a problem and they need to be looked at very
security forces were the exact same collection of kalashnikov rifles and the belgian-made land mieps and the c-5 rocket launchers, made famous by the libyan militias, these exact models were recovered by the algerian security forces, which means they came from the stockpiles amassed by momar cadoffy and looted by arms traffickers and are freely moving back and forth on this north african border, which is completely wide open for traffickers and militias,. neil: leaving aside our pouring good money after bad, in which we have committed tens of billions of dollars and in the case of egypt, then give mon tote new government that hates us even more, i am wondering, in light of today s developments from benjamin netanyahu has to form a coalition government, not nearly as popular as it was before the latest parliamentary
countries that have a tough time getting money allotted. yeah. this is all under sort of the rubric of environmental justice. the idea is that the wealthy nations will redistribute to the neil: the money is diceet and money that is lost is pretty convincing. if you are worried about 1.5 billion that don t have running water, living in huts made of dung, the greatest threat they
debasing it, whatever. neil: you go beyond the signature. he s not a very good choice. if you want someone who will confront the president which i think the best treasury secretaries do that. bob gruden says if you are raising tax, let s do it to address the deficit ask they did a good job. neil: show a game plan, how to get out of this. right. he wasn t perfect. but they had a pretty good economic agenda in the clinton years and the economy sppded. even hank polson, say what you want about the bailout, he went to bush and said, listen, this is what you have to do or else the banking system is going to collapse. i think, you know, when you talk about tim geithner and what i think i know about jack lew, you have a drone who will carry out the president s wishes without much context or pushing back.