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oil coming out? you know, chairman bingaman, i think i mean, i will say this, something that you might want to confirm with secretary chu and the scientist from the labs that have been involved in this, but their view is it has been communicated to me that the range of increase may have been somewhere between 4% and 5% over what it was before. okay. all right. let me ask what what d you expect this other report, the one the president continues to refer to which is this six-month report, what do you expect that to yield in the w of is it going to make another series of recommendations similar to the recommendations that came out of your 30-day report, or i it going to be trying to do something different? i will have deputy secretary david hayes respond to that because he s in charge of the investigations and helping with setting up of the commission, but there are multiple investigat going on, many reports that are coming in and we are getting to the root cau ....
in our long-term fiscal stability we would see our interest rates go up quite a bit as we have already seen an increase in other countries and that would affect of course consumers ability to buy houses and automobiles etc.. it would slow our economy. by reducing the value of government bonds that would put pressure on the balance sheet of financial institutions so it would cause a lot of stress in the economy and in the worst case would cause financial instability like we are seeing it to some extent increase. so if you want a strong economy you need to have capital investment. you need to have consumers ability to write houses and automobiles and so on. and the high interest rates that would make it even more difficult to balance the budget . interest rates i believe within two years, we are on the path to pay a billion dollars a day just on interest on the debt that is how out-of-control it is getting. our interest rates now are very low so the concern is they w ....