it's global healthcare consulting business unit hill could health and by the alice clayberg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank a and >> hello, i'm llewellyn king, host of "white house chronicle," which is coming up, but first a few thoughts of my own. the ever world was gripped with chaos years ago, gas lines, people shot, and the energy problem was with usw for really nearly 40 years. -- it is only very recently that it has eased, and it has eased dramatically. 1970's, we had the iranian revolution, and there were umps up and down all the way along. every president talked about independence. but did not believe it was a possibility, and international policy was built around energy. big countries that were not oil producers became supplicant countries. all that has changed. why? technology. it has come to the rescue, but it did not come at the speed that people thought it would. a lot of government money thrown into energy research in the 1980's, the great national , but bit by bit, it began to have an affect, and also we opened not only our research capacity but our min