decades ago. it is going to be a shock, a decision not taken was the decision to but more so, it happens all the time with the infrastructure. we take decisions and not to build this, not to repair that, not to tax something else. in europe, whether it was right or wrong, they took decisions to build a lot of trains, to build a lot of public transportation, and on the whole, it has quite enjoyable public spaces. we have put our national resources, our national inclination for how we shall live in other places. by not taking actual decisions to do these things. nonetheless in the negative took decisions, and they are coming to root, bad bridges, bad roads, bed sewage systems, and the electrical grid we now learn is in awful shape. decisions and not taken. yes, mr. churchill was right, are nonetheless decisions. with those non decision decisions, they need re- examination. i have a special program today with one of the great men of broadcasting, one of the giants. you re going
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another bull without any water and a sponge. not terribly sophisticated. but you heard a lot about the future of oil in the u.s. there are those, and they included newt gingrich, that believe we can become a great will producing power oil producing power. this very week i interviewed jack girard of the american petroleum institute and he said there is going to be plenty of oil in the u.s. for our children and grandchildren and i believe their children. that is 100 years, i imagine. the thing is, traditionally we got oil out of a pool in the ground sort of like this ball of water here. and we put a pipe into wit and drill a hole and put the pipe down and suck it up. the new oil that is changing things, that has changed north dakota into a boom state is rather different. the oil is contained in tight formations and they have to be squeezed and squeezed to get the oil out. it is very expensive. this oil comes to the surface, depending where you are saudi arabia for russia
has achieved something unique. his presidency reminds me of somebody who gives a party and then comes as one of the guests, not as the host. there is some sort of disconnect. i think many of the problems come from bad advice. he intends to get enthusiasm and then to undermine his own enthusiasm for something. i will give you two examples, just two, but there are many. they are both in the energy field. one is the keystone pipeline. why did he do what he did with it to get the enmity of the oil industry but to provide an enormous cadrel for the republicans of the oil industry to beat him with. canada is going to produce that oil. we need that oil. it s security. the canadians will build another pipeline to the west coast over the rockies and sell it to china if we don t have it. why did he after two years say it needed study? why didn t they study it in the two years? well, of course they did. it was a done deal until he undid the deal. likewise when he was running for preside