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john: planning s car trip? warmer weather means driving season. we all have opinions about the price of gas, what might be don about it, but it turns out some mu of what we think that we know is not so. and one reason we get it wrong is that companies and interest groups like to ask. politicians, well, like maybe too harsh a word. they mislead. they pretend that was a few law they can make everything better. president obama's says gas cost too mu and he feels our pain. >> the serious blow to your budget. getting hit with a new tax coming right out of your pocket. john: the president took action. >> we have taken steps to softe the blow by making sure that ou cars use less gas. we put in place the toughest to economy standards in history. over the life of a new car the average family will save more than $8,000 at the pump. john: it sounds good. he does not want to save $8,000.
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but the magicf fuel economy standards is just one more myth that politicians sell us. here to tell us the truth, susa dudley who runs the regulatory studies center in george washington university a james taylor who studies energy for the heartland institute. so what is the problem? president obama just said he explained that he saved the $800. >> the problem is, we have hybrid cards and love them. we drive them, commute, take them on vacations. wheels of a pickup truck that w use around the firm. now, for are hybrids we value fuel economy. we like gas mileage. from a truck we value different things. the problem with the government rule is that they are ignoring all those other president -- precedents.
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the only thing of value is fuel economy. >> 78% favor requiring beeter fuel efficiency, but the car dealers say that this will make cars cost $3,000 more. >> and the government's own estimate is that the most recen rules the you just mentioned, $60 billion to achieve those. john: these are popular. >> and consurs right now if they want can purchase these automobiles right now. i am wondering why we're doing is of oil and sticking your nos and other people's business. in order to make cars more fuel efficient of the manufacturers are making them smaller, using lighter materials and are less crash worthy. your seeing thousands of people dying on the roads right now that should not be and would no be if we did not have these requirements to our regulations restrictions. john: more people die, but we get more meage. next read, people is in the aut industry its regulation. fights it intensely, but noticed something weird when th
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fuel standard bill was announced . then heads of 13 car makers wer their shaking the president's hand and smiling. everybody looked so happy. what is that about? >> people team that tiara peopl tend to think thatindustry does not want regulation but this tree often supports regulation because it gives them competitive advantage. in this case there are a few of the automaker's there were in support of the rule. also, i think the industry, the face the threat oo different regulations in 50 different states, so this might have been a lesser of two evils. even if it is a $60 billion cost , if everyone had to do it, they could pass it on to consumers. john: just like with other industries, when you're heavily regulated, if you are a large company already making a profit you can assure those costt. at the same time you know the smaller companies, those who have get ideas and innovate cannot afford these costs.
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>> gives the big as a advantage. it is a way that they absorb th cost and say it is a necessary evil because we can keep that market share to ourselves. we don't get these innovative products, innovative companies that are be done by regulations. john: a few weeks ago i reporte on another example of tough regulations. check out this coolermphibious vehicle. oh, no. i am driving in the water. wait a second. i press a button and the wheels roll u. now i have a real boat. and the company makes even more useful amphibious vehicles. it's terrific rescue vehicle. places where thereeare lots of lakes and rivers. this suv-sized one. the company says american regulation makes it very difficult to get these things
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approved in america. one reason is at big automakers are so uncomfortable with the current regulations that the join the government. it has no air b. but you cannot put air bags and above because every time it's a way of the thing would go off. >> frequent pace planting, but as adults unless the manufacturers of these innovative vehicles are affirmatively hiding something from us, why shouldn't we be able to make the interest jack. >> and of passing beyond the. john: does not take on the oil companies. i am told they opposed in energ and, the competition. they don't want to follow the green lead. i assume that is true. laurel is not green, would you say this is a myth. >> absolutely. exxon mobile invested
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$600 million an ounce to research for biofuels. they see an opportunity to make money, especially if the government is going to man thei subsidized. they're not posed to that. john: they are, in effect, the biggest investorof green stuff. >> people don't know that, but the auto companies see an opportunity to have more subsidies, more port thrown eir weight. why not get on board. john: next, electric cars. great for the environment. i want this totally free thanks to a government subsidy. then a subsidy is now gone. the electric must be better for the trip because congress still subsidiz the electric vehicle. this is a myth? >> electric is not better beuse we have to get electricity from somewhere, so if the justification is we are reducing emissions, well, now w just a power plant emissions, bus the batteries.
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if you put them in automobiles as well, they're also a very significant and our mental problem in terms of recycling and what have you. thank you for that segment. i watcht. i got one of those golf carts myself. ma be used -- maybe a little bit of a hypocrite the government justifi by saying we are reducing emissions. it is not like to be driving al over the neighborhood. it is just a toy. john: next, democrats regulate and republicans derelate. you were a republican regulator. >> i was the overseer of the regulators. john: regulatory affairs. >> that's right. and the evidence just does not support that. if you look at the number of regulations that were issued by a george h. w. bush, clinton, and george w. bush, on over their term they issued this sam number. president obama has been regulating more.
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his rord is about 20 percent more than any of his three previous. plus, the notion that president bush was of the regulator, i would say that is a myth. he issued somef the most far reaching regulations on air quality, food labeling, and -- john: he hired5,000 new regulator said. d you fight him on this? did you resist? >> the pressure to regulate is intense. and as wee noted before, even in this tree is pressuring. so when everybody wants, regulation can give you some competitive advantage everyone pushes for it. there is no one pushing for stepping back to give people more freedom of choice. john: we are on th program. when we talk about gas and oil and what they cost, think about this. over here, this barrel of oil. so let me ask the audience.
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of the oil in this barrel, how much of it becomes gasoline? all of this? most of it? don't answer because you're too smart. you are my audience. i ask people in times square. how much of that becomes gasoline? >> all of it. >> i would say about maybe 60-70 %s probably converted into gasolin. john: chief economist. he should know. what percent of a barrel becomes gasoline? >> it varies by refinery and crude type. john: can you guess what is?
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>> the computer. john: the volleyball. >> styrofoam cups. john: aspirin. and not talking about the bottle , but aspirin itself. how about class? okay. you got a right. this is the only thing not made with the oil. and why do you say this is important for people to know? >> it is important because if you're looking around your hous virtually everything that you have ttere is either made from oil or shipped by oil. john: it does not need to be. we could be shipping things of power. >> well, you could. you could. john: if we stop using oil we would not be able to have all o these things. >> there is no question. we have bee around for 150 years.
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♪ john: whenever gas prices go up they appear to make your car burn less gas. they are all garbage. automakers would install it because it would give them a sales advance. however, there is a way to save on gas without driving less tha does work. it is called hyper myelin. special correspondent kennedy does it. >> let's go. come on. john: she lives in los angeles and drives a lot and has mastered for techniques. the first i you have heard of before. lighten up on the gas pedal. >> which means when you're at a stoplight and you are about to go, do not just jam on the gas. yoo're wasting fuel. start slow and just get going
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cruising. my drive the people behind you crazy, but who cares. he isthat happy because i'm not going as fast as you'd like. john: the next technique is mor ntroversial, said shifting into neutral and coasting. >> i shifted into neutral. you cannot go in neutral when you're going downhill in california, but it is okay because they're going uphill. you ought to coasted to a stoplight. and i can stay neutral. john: it is against the law to coast the downhill in many states but it does save gas. >>fftive and fun. of a sudden you get even addicted to putting your car in a truehenever you can. john: filling tires to the recommended level also makesa difference. the robber manufacturers association says 50 percent of americans do this.
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another controversial techniq is drastic, closely folling another car, better yet a truck breaks the wind and creates a little vacuum. the is danger we are told not to tailgate. the hyper mileage techniques to work acc is it on the this will be derek carr. >> i can see the range of my ca for run of gas. you can see it go up and you ca add miles on to the range in just a few short miles i have already added 10 miles to my range. >> you are saving a couple of bucks but risking your life tailgating these people. >> i risk my life every weekend. i will get to the particulars, but less to say that we're not missing any of that. driving itself as the most dangerous thing the we do. i know until a semis.
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full i let them break the wind to give you a little bit more fuel efficiency. john: california said hehould allow for feed for miles-per-hour. the 65 miles-per-hour, supposed to be too moderate and 60 feet, 17 car lengths back. no one does that. 3 feet, 13 car lengths. >> in new hampshire is-2 car lengths. john: that was a joke. >> that's not true. john: this does save you some money. testing is illegal down el. >> you kind of slingshot. you accelerate, get going, and put it into neutral. you essentially have to do it i the right hand granma lane. th is the real danger. john: us consider how much mone you ca save doing this. the average person's nancy
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thousand $200 gasoline per year. you in our test saved 60 and a half percent. though the three ended $67 per year. did you come to like it. karzai am addicted. i started doing it in 2008. s prices have really gone up. i've ied to find a way to not buy a hybrid. i wanted to keep myfeet. [applause] this was the only way to do it. john: but you're saving hundred of dollars. is it good for us? we debate that next. [applause] ♪ we went out and asked people a simple question:
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>> ramp up the availability of ethanol. >> politicians are telling us that ethanol will solve our problems. it sounds right. after all, the main ingredient corn. corn is grown right here in america. we did things like this commercial. john: of want to be a hero. his group promotes ethanol, though it did not make that commercial. james taylor who added to the heartland institute of environmental climate newslette
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is back to ay his argument is absurd. >> it is absurd that we will save money and make ourountry better through ethanol. right now ethanol is substantially more expensive than gasoline, has been. in order to get from a to b we have ted spend more money for fuel. that, of course, hurts the economy and reduces our standar of living. john: what do you mean a cost more? >> of the pump you're not seein the difference in the mileage. other words, for ethanol you have to multiply the price by one-ha to get the true price comparison with gasoline becaus it is not as concentrated cause the have to use more. john: bob. >> well, he is just wrong. $0.50 below the price of gasoline at the terminal, and i is saving consumers money. john: is ait lower priced because tpayers are throwing money you?
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>> not all. ii fact, the ethanol industry receives no tax incentives will soever. the oil industry does. they get plenty of tax breaks. they get more than we do. the ethanol gets nothing. >> i love my friend, bob, but the fact of the matter is it at the mall was less expensive tha gasoline, and others would not ve to go to the government telling them, you must pass a law to make people buy our product. [applause] john: wire you pay at the publi ough. >> if there was anything like a free market in energy today we would not need to. oil companies denied marketplac access to at all. they do not allow marketers to sell other blends. john: have a they have the powe to stop the? >> franchise agreements. theybsolutely control what is sold. they have control of the gasoline infrastructure, and th only thing that is broke in the dynamic that has allowed at the
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mall to be used anywhere in thi country is the renewable fuel standard, a policy that says, you know wt, there are important onomic energy and in our mental benefits. we want to reduce our dependenc on imported oil. some refiners going to have to use some easure of ethanol. john: they locked him out. >> thet the top companies can set up their own distribution network and have their own franchise agreements. no one from the oil industry or anyone else is going to state legislatures, congress and sank pass a law locking them out and forcing people to file we have. john: second point, i was told is not oil iscorn. it is clner for the air. >> it is, indeed. reducing the bacteria. carbon monoxide, toxics that ar in gasoline, and it is t only liquid transportaon fuel that we have that will reduce greenhouse gas emissns is a great bargain for the environment.
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>> if that is true why is almos every environmental group including the ones that support you turned against it. >> it is not really at the oliveira against. they do not like direction mariculture. those a different issues. %-recognize that ethanol is reducing carbon today. the fact of the matter is it is renewable. it is the only resource that we have today that is addressing that issue. john: ii is grown in america. isn't that good for us? >> wireless grown in america as well. regarding the assertion that is better for the environment, it is essentially neutral when compared to gasoline and we're talking missions, carbon. but what bob does not bring up is the fact that growing corn for ethanol is very land intensive. right now 60,000 square miles o land is developed for ethanol production. that is an amount of land equal to the state of hawaii and the state of new jersey in the stat
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of delaware in the state of rhode island, the state of connecticut, the state of massachusetts. john: all of this land for ethanol that i could eat. so food costs more. someone is going to start. well you get all the goodies. >> in fact what is happening is farmers are becoming far more efficie, growing more on each acre of land. my graduate from high school we3 got another 84 bushels per acre. today we are getting 160 bushel per acre. so we don't have to expand in orders to give more of the know. john: food is not cost more? >> it sure doesn't. >> the fact of the matter is ethanol diverts more than 40 percent of the nation's corn crop away from food for humans, feed for cattle ranchers, poultry farmers. that has a negative impact on prices. -in the sense that we pay more as a result. john: thank you.
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i say pay for your own ethanol and stop asking me for special deals. coming up, greedy oil companies. i say they actually do a wonderful thing for us. we should thank them. you've disagreed. but next, energy independence. how can that not be good? one of my next guests says independence is meaningless. [applause] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] a car that can actually see like a human using stereoscopic cameras ♪ and even stop itself if it has to. ♪ the technology may be hard to imagine... but why you would want it is not. the 2014 e-class, see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer
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of mexico. >> do we help fund terrorism? >> it pumps ney intf how is your financial security. john: we should become energy independent. we agree with that, but the cat institute says independence is nonsense. it would increase the price of the middle east. a commodity, energy independenc is not protect you against bad
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stuff that happens abroad. >> there is no correlation. the gimmick of the d and find it. there's no correlation whatsoever. >> i would argue that if you denominate energy independence in terms of oil, if you want to change the game entirely in denominated and will we might call fuel choice. you had a segment about ethanol.
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yeah of the abundant source and turn it into ethanol which when available to the consumer as an option in addition to gasoline, in addition, perhaps, to ethano use only create conditions that actually can destroy opec. there is a mosque that was in boston that was an incubator fo the attack there. that has i financing from saudi arabia. that makes a real difference. >> i believe almost everything that caters suggests. >> bad idea. john: stop throwing money to these madrasahs. >> they are here. >> if the united states did not send money to saudi arabia for crude, where we get about 10 percent of our crude. that's a we just got it from th north sea.
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it would not matter much. we displace the customers and then buy from the saudis. the idea is that our actions somehow ench them beyond what otherwise would be is to simply not true. >> unless you actually are usin another fuel in the mix. this is the point. you guys like consumers to have a say. this i know. sit-down. this requires the government saying we would like the consumer to have skills. this is an importa point. what has happened here is thank to t mandate in brazil we have seen of manufacturers as catche making cars that can hughes alcohol based fuels.
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they just don't market and the way in our country. >> they want as long as there are exclusively configured to use gasoline. if and when you don't need to mandate it. >> is the cheapest fuel available. you're right about one thin compressed natural gas, the problem as you understand that it would take hundreds of billions of dollars to invest i the infrastructure necessary to get from gas stations to delivery pipelines. the reason you don't make tha is it is not clear it can be profitable n years from now. if youctually open the market my guess is you'll find the cos f methanol dramatically
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declining in that is what the economists think. john: that has not been used on new of four. ani should answer the question i asked for, is our crude oil come from? 43% from america, next is canada . in saudi arabia, mexico is fourth, venezuela. delirious to go back and listen tooliticians promise energy independence. always about to happen. >> this intollrable excessive dependence. >> they promise. >> burning as closer to energy independence to our country by 1980. >> 1985. >> and ten years. john: i d't know about ten years, but now we are told that pinkston fracking for natural gas it may happen. >> it could happen if we actually allowed to happen. help us get fuel choice an
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exercise that option at the gas price. >> what kind of cars to build a maintenance to put in the cars. >> but i don't know in the future whether it will be most efficient, by valdez so, electric power. we'll know what the most efficient fuel will be we know that it will deliver if it make economic sense. but frank is talking about is the government forced transition . >> here is what i'm saying. since 2006 american automakers among others have been manufacturing cars to sell brazil. they have had to make them flexible fuel because governmen there has a mandate.
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nonmanufacturing a whole new ca that would be government imposed . this is using the cars that we have by and large. john: thank you. coming up, and i don't know. more. and the audience gets to grill our guests. you hurt my feelings, todd. i did? when visa signature asked everybody what upgraded experiences real mattered. you suggested luxury car service instd of "strength training with patrick willis." come on todd! flap them chicken wings. [ grunts ] well, i travel a lot and umm... [ male announcer ] at visa signature, every upgradedxperience
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♪ [applause] john: we are back with your questions for my guests. jerry taylor from the cato institute, james taylor, not th singer. >> i am the original. jo: frome heartland. frank gaffney of the cenr for security policy. first from my facebook page. what a way to unshackle the energy so that it could be produced more efficiently. >> obviously you can open up federal lands for drilling wher they're currently not allowed, for instance the arctic nationa wildlife refefuge in the gulf o mexico is a simple thing that w could do, but the reality is draulic fracturing giving as to additional million barrels per day which is a pretty big %-government interference for t
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most part, producing -- john: in new york is bay and. >> but most of the reserves right now in north dakota are producing flat out. private lands are producing a tremendous amount of crude. we areseeing another surge from california. john: the audience. >> you heard the term because oil, and i am wondering if that is a myth. >> we are opposing the point. we are all going to freeze in the dark. >> most people don't appreciate only 35 percent of the crude-oi we have an upper -- reserves ever gets put into the market. and technology changes allows t be more economic. if we were to move from 35% extraction to 40 percent extraction, i would be like getting the most to saudi arabia's to the global food market. we will people are saying ise have hit a dead end and biotechnology and will never innovate and find cheaper wa
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to get some of the sons of the market. you ow how dubious that proposition is. if current trend continues we will be a larger producer of crude oil and even the saudis b around 2020. >> did you mentioned a government mandate is in place now. wouldn't it make more sense if the solution was to try to you rid of the mandate we already have instead of piling a new on on top of it? >> it is not a government mandate. it is what has developed over the years. we developed an entire industry around using gasoline. people who sell it and people who drive their -- build their cars. we have a choice. the industry did choose a long time ago. it is not the government. now we have cell phones. we have an industry that focuse on one particular problem. it does not mean there and less as a practical matter the institutional interests say.
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>> right now we have automobile fuel efficiency standards in th united states that tell other companies of fuel-efficient car have to be. that is forced they get credit for beating the standard if they produce vehicles. there are millions of cars on the road today that are not fle fuel. the reason, the only reason tha detroit makes this stuff is because they get regulatory preferences to build this stuff. >> is up slightly not true. >> the numr of cars in the united states that are marketed as flex fuel vehicles does follow that pattern. john: i cannot even fall you guys. [laughter] >> they're making a brazil. john: stop. >> yes, ssr. >> today we don'tave a truly free market for anything. if we had a truly free market for energy how would that chann the energy we use. and what a lot of the alternative energy be used, eve feasible unnaturally free-market . >> that is a great question.
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first of all, energy would be cheaper. how would that shape the market? tht is a fantastic question because that gets to the heart of the issue which is, i cannot determine, some government bureaucrat cannot determine, evenhe best energy economic expert in the world cannot tell us what will be 20 or 30 years from now the most eicient, economical energy source. that is why governments to allo the free market to work and therefore entrepreneurs will bring to market those pructs and technologies that work best. >> you say y want the government to create a mandate to give us more choice in the market, but we already have a cice. we can choose to buy or not to buy products. are you really is saying you don't like the choices we have made? >> i know think so. what i am saying is you could have much more choice. we are talking about why the prices are so high. it is that our government controlling the prices. it is the saudi government. when they decide that we are producing too much and it is going to reduce their profit,
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they drive down the amount of that opec supplies. that is so we cano it we hhve to. >> the fact that they make decisions about how much crude oil to produce is a fact of lif like the fact that the n rises in the morning. there's nothing we can do about it. the bestthat we can do is provide for an efficient marketplace that allows for the righ -- the rightarket response. in the government tries to respond jimmy carter wanted to see better fuels. george bush, the second george bush wanted freedom cars run by fuel cells. you don't hear that being discussed today. we heard promises of methanol being cheaper than gasoline in e 70's, and it is still a dollar a gallon more expensive in the latest version is methanol. if and when this is competitive believe me, people want to and will make tons of money. john: on that note, ank you. coming up, what i say every tim we get to the gas station we
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>> i feel like it is saf to put in more premium gas. john: it is not safer or better. the few cars with high compression engineslike tories and corvettes need -- need higher octane, but for 90 percent of the cars it is no better. it just waste your money. now, the men's wear most of you probably don't figure with me, most everyone says gas costs to much. >> today was ove$4. that is ridiculous. much too much. >> wait too much. >> how low is the american public supposed to afford. john: and here we keep close track of gas prices. >> the 16th straight day. john: the most popular anchor tells me. >> zero companies are by your friend. we are getting hosed at the pump . john: those? of many of you agree with bill o'reilly? a few of you. all right. this is a "stossel" audience. the majority of your right. we would be looking to get
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equal hosing when we pay for health care or college tuition because gas is cheap. we should think those companies. think what they do to bring us gallon of gas, such debt of the ground sometime from moral to the war zones are deep beneath the notion. drills now been then dig sideways through as much as 7 miles of earth. what they find is then delivere through long billion-$ pipeline and put in monstrously -- monstrously expensive tankers to ship across the ocean and then refined into several types of gasoline, transported and trucks th cost and is a thousand dollarsuntil finally it gets here to your gas station. and even after all that the gasoline per ounce still costs less than th ball rather that they sell at those gas stations. government produced gas it woul cost $50 per gallon, and there
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would be shortages. people complain about oil company profits. we should be glad that they mak lots of money. profit is what gets them to fin more oil so that we have supplies tomorrow. and just how much profit to the make? well, apple's profit margin is about 24%. mcnald's, about 20%. exxon mobile, the biggest oil company, a 11%. how much profit is that per gallon of the pump? people think it is a dollar or two, but exxon clears about $0. per gallon. governments, by contrast, gabba -- grab an average $0.27, the average gas tax. if anyone is greedy it is government. oil companies cannot be too greedy because they have competition. that is our show. we will have another new "stossel" show next thursday nanette 9:00 p.m. on that fox business network. thank you for watching. ♪ [applause]
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