was in early january. crude oil futures were down 11 cents to close at 95.72 a barrel, but the entire equation may be changing. our chief national correspondent jim angle reports the days of america s against oamerica s den oil could be numbered. reporter: the u.s. has discover energy than it thought it had. some talk about north american energy independence. we could make opec n0pec. the reason, advances in technology such as fracking, horizohorizontal drilling and or improvements which increase natural gas production by 27% in just four years, making the u.s. number one in gas with oil on its way. we re talking decades, if not into the hundreds of years of supply in north america. it s been estimated by the energy information agency that
links to the red cross. romney has been in touch with chris christie of new jersey and bob mcdonnell of virginia. natural disasters spotlight and test the incumbent response. often overshadowing the political challengers. the latest gallup national tracking poll shows romney at 51% and president at 46. in ohio, which could decide the election, a new rasmussen tracking poll has romney ahead 50 to 48 in a buckeye state virtual tie yet there obama leads by two points in the real clear politics average of the recent ohio polls. romney went ahead with afternoon rally in iowa, but that is it for at least a day as the campaign takes a backseat to the storm. romney closing argument for final stretch is dubbed day one, job one, referring to the economy. he promises tax relief. north american energy independence. to repeal obamacare, block military cuts and balance the budget among other things. all of that is on hold.
can keep you in line because we ve got to make this big deal? well, i m you know, i was part of a number of big deals in the early 1980s. we got a third of 9 democrats to vote for us in the house, when up was speaker. none of them involved tax increases. let me give you one example. we did an entire morning what they had called newt university, on energy. and we had mika brzezinski and joe scarborough come to be students which was a hoot. the next day i did my show and they both said on the air that the briefing they got from harold hamm who developed north dakota changed their entire understanding of american energy policy. they were blown away by the data. why is that important? the number one item on the romney plan for the middle class is a north american energy independence which includes canada and mexico. and if you look at the jump in north dakota from 150 million barrels to 24 billion barrels of reserve, you look, the number two oil producing state in the united states. th
we ve got to make this big deal? well, i m you know, i was part of a number of big deals in the early 1980s. we got a third of 9 democrats to vote for us in the house, when up was speaker. none of them involved tax increases. let me give you one example. we did an entire morning what they had called newt university, on energy. and we had mika brzezinski and joe scarborough come to be students which was a hoot. the next day i did my show and they both said on the air that the briefing they got from harold hamm who developed north dakota changed their entire understanding of american energy policy. they were blown away by the data. why is that important? the number one item on the romney plan for the middle class is a north american energy independence which includes canada and mexico. and if you look at the jump in north dakota from 150 million barrels to 24 billion barrels of reserve, you look, the number two oil producing state in the united states. they just announced they have 4
tip o neill was speaker. none of them involved tax increases. let me give you one example. we did an entire morning what they had called newt university, on energy. and we had mika brzezinski and joe scarborough come to be students which was a hoot. the next day i did my show and they both said on the air that the briefing they got from harold hamm who developed north dakota changed their entire understanding of american energy policy. they were blown away by the data. why is that important? the number one item on the romney plan for the middle class is a north american energy independence which includes canada and mexico. and if you look at the jump in north dakota from 150 million barrels to 24 billion barrels of reserve, you look, the number two oil producing state in the united states. they just announced they have 42 times, not 42%, natural gas in ohio as they thought they did a year ago. i mean, just the drive of the energy sector under a romney