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And kevin book is managing director of the research firm clear view energy partners, an energy research and consulting firm. all right, coral, how about that trip down memory lane? it was a 50-minute speech, a push to try to come up with an energy policy and he s been a little bit snake bit, right? last year, right when he was coming out, the oil spill. this year, this nuclear catastrophe in japan. how seriously do you take this proposal? well, to the president s credit, he came right out of the gate and he said, you know, exactly what you just showed. presidents have been trying to do this for 40 years. we ve heard this again and again. we ve seen these piecemeal efforts. we ve seen efforts of big, comprehensive real change fall to the wayside again and again and again. and essentially that is what the president has done. he came into office with a really big, sweeping ambitious, real comprehensive energy plan and the events that the gulf spill last year, the nuclear disaster this ....
A republican house, all of that has swept that agenda off the table. it s not possible to move that big, comprehensive agenda anymore. and so if you look at what he s done, he has taken about four or five sort of individual pieces from that agenda that maybe do have a political chance, and also, that play well into the political reals rigrealities ri that touch into gas prices and drilling, and he s put them together and reframed them and repackaged them and called this his new plan. let s talk about one of them. it seems to me the biggest dispute yesterday with the dueling press releases was over this issue of whether or not oil companies are sufficiently exploiting or using the oil leases they already have for domestic explorations. so the president s saying, hey, i m all for increased domestic production. oil companies, you re sitting on leases idly and not doing the exploration. republicans say, no, you need to expand the area in which we can drill. be neutral here. ....