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Alternative, nuclear, higher fuel standards and more drilling. that is why under my administration america is producing more oil per day than at any time in the last 8 years. in 2010 our dependence on foreign oil was under 50% for the first time in more than a decade. they are echoing, that the production is not what the president has done but in spite of what he has done. that production is a direct result of leases issued before this administration and as a result of the development on private and state land. today on federal lands the area where the president has control, production in the gulf of mexico is down 30%. lease sales rocky mountains are down 70%. there is more shale and oil in three western u.s. states than the entire reserve of saudi ....
Secretary to mitt romney s presidential contain and juan williams, npr news analyst and a fox news contributor, gentlemen, good morning to both of you. juan, i ll let you start. it seems to be a democratic issue that comes from the white house directly and will make a trail up to capitol hill. does it stand a chance of ever getting through? well, at moment they don t have the votes. i think everybody knows that. so the question becomes can you get some kind of republican support for an alternative bill? the president, last night, didn t specifically call for a cap-and-trade. but, what he said is, he s looking at any idea and is not going to tolerate inaction. tomorrow, thursday, majority leader reid has a meeting of all of the 59 democrats on the hill, bill, and, he is going to allow people like maria cantwell, john kerry to stand up and say here are alternatives to carbon pricing. you know, things like higher fuel standards, so that you have to use gasoline in trucks as opposed to d ....
Happen. melissa: yeah. of course, i mean, the higher fuel standards, better for the environment, although you always wonder, we all share the same environment. i don t know. and also this is like a 39-year-old law, these cafe standards. they go back to when they were trying to reduce our reliance on oil from other countries. that s not the issue any more, right? instead we re talking about greenhouse emissions. we re talking about the environment. this thing is in shanghai by the left. melissa: auto industry very much liking donald trump these days. love love love. i think they re going to rename the lincoln bedroom after him. melissa: i was trying to get you to say that. we were joke about that before the show. thank you for joining us. you re terrific. fox news alert. the doj announcing first round of charges for the massive yahoo! breach affecting 500 million accounts. the indictment for the 2014 hack is against four people, ....