in washington he is the research director for public citizens energy program in london we have angus mccrone he is the chief editor at bloomberg new energy finance and it landed we go to gail faerber she's the editor of the oil drum and another member of our crosstalk team yell on the hunger all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want as we sit down folks do this program brant is training at ninety seven dollars thirty seven cents and well gail if i go to you first here one hundred dollars seems to be this like magic number is i mean is it good for us in the media is a good reason for me to do a program on this because one hundred dollars is the benchmark everybody talks about the one hundred psychological benchmark is it really one. well i think that the world really cannot stand very high oil prices i think some studies have shown that even prices in the eighty five dollars range can cause problems. and certainly if we're getting up to one hundred dollars there's a real issue of whether we're going to be seeing recession ok i mean if i can stay wi