oil prices down 2 bucks a barrel below a hundred for the first time in a longtime. bill: because? reporter: because of a lot of these things. finally the administration seems to be embracing a true all of the above strategy. hopefully they continue. we need to drill more and embrace the keystone pipeline. this natural gas issue is a very, very positive step. bill: one caveat on the keystone we learned there will be no decision or construction this year. reporter: it s a long life. bill: see you at 5:00. are you going to round everybody up. reporter: i m going to do it. bill: let her rip at 5:00. here is martha. martha: the government released new unemployment numbers this morning, and they showed that the economy had haded just 115,000 jobs last month narcotic shy of the expectation. neil cavuto has thoughts on all of this that you need to think about. he will join us to talk about how the weak recovery could affect your wallet and also the president at race. i expect that you
bremmer. we ll see you again soon. bill: let s see if the guy gets his education here. martha: maybe he s going to nyu. bill: a new report by the bam statioobama administration s rules nor gas. what you pay, eric bolling is on deck on that story. martha: protecting yourself from a tornado. the cdc recommending a new safety tip that could save lives. that is straight ahead. 21 minutr
the fracking industry said listen these are too stringent we push back on this. including exxon and 0 of the other major tkreurls. and s drillers. the new set of guidelines is a walk back on the original set of rules, a very, very good step in the right direction. this will happen. bill: for a lot of people who bang on this administration and think the regulations go higher and higher and thicker and thicker and deeper and deeper this would be a reversal of tha frpblgts not a reversal but a lot easier than what they were going to apply to the fracking industry. i think president obama is listening. he s liz evening to the g.o.p., and the conservatives. i certainly think he s listening sarah palin and i put a special on a couple of weeks ago that was one of the major recommendations we made to the obama administration to get the price of gasoline down is to embrace natural gas as a fuel of the future. we have it, it s in abundance in american. we have a trillion barrels of natural gas
expansion of 80s and 90s. let me get to the solutions in a moment. this is very important point for people to understand how we dig ourselves out of it. we added 115,000 jobs last month. many economists say you have to be as high as 200,000. you say that is not good enough. you say you have to be at 250,000 just to match the population growth? we would expect the population to grow and expect discouraged workers to come back into the labor market. you need 250,000 jobs a month to take care of that. that wouldn t put all the unemployed workers back to work. so a much more aggressive strategy is necessary. too many americans have been out of work for far too long. bill: based on that logic, doug, you would need to double the number of jobs added in the month of april and then go beyond that, which is, it s a long way from there right now. okay, pro-growth policies that you espouse. what do you think washington could do? what do you think washington s willing to do at the moment? we
only through the mail. small businesses depend on this processing plant. they want to shut down 3000 post offices, cut 100,000 jobs. they re gonna be putting people out of work everywhere. the american people depend on the postal service. bill: breaking news, more americans have stopped looking for a job, that is one of the many headlines today from this labor report. your government says the following, the unemployment rate