max kaiser this is the cause the report let's talk about oil gas the price of oil price of gas what makes these prices go up and down is it all frickin crazy stacey harbor tell me more well the first seven here the king of natural gas quids john arnold ahead from billionaire known as the king of natural gas is retiring at the age of thirty eight amid a slump in the price of natural gas for the last few years arnold a former trader at enron has struggled to repeat the success that saw him generate returns in excess of three hundred percent in two thousand and six from trading natural gas right is the linda event of gas traders you know won't get up in the morning members he said let us make it ten thousand or under a thousand or the number was there's a trainer who's been spoon fed properties for years by trading on inside information the market manipulation is saying oh you know going to give me free money well i'm not going to trade anymore well maxie is a former enron trader so perhaps this is a sign that they're not able to rip off granny so easily well yeah but enron trainers you know

in oil and gas operations. for many years we had prohibited, basically, pits used to store produced waters. those had been phased out decades ago. but now we in a situation where we needed to accommodate the temporary storage of flowback waters in pits see that that water could be used in future hydraulic fracturing operations and we could save our fresh water resources. to address the issue, the corporation commission worked with the industry and other interested parties to develop new rules for the large pits used to store flow back waters on a temporary basis so they could be re-used and recycled. there are more examples from other states about what issues they face and how they have addressed those issues in the stronger reports. i'll just refer you to those. stronger is, as the chairman said, a stakeholder process. the board of stronger, all of the guidelines development work groups all the review teams that stronger puts together are stakeholder bodies that include representatives of state regulatory prog

get the natural gas out. to test it you want to turn it an eighth of a turn and turn it back to the way it it was. notice the little thing? that's going straight with the flow of the pipe that means it's open. if it's across that means you turned off the gas. the eighth of a turn you didn't turn it off you just moved it. these are in better shape. if you can get to this valve, safely, the building's collapsed on it you can't get to it you have to use the one in the street. pg and e put all the meters outside the houses in a lot of the neighborhoods, these are pretty easy to get to. they are easy to find. if you can find the little round circle in the sidewalk. if you look directly at the house you will find this meter and this shut off on the ground floor. in is a closeup of the shut off. in is the wrench i recommend you you use it for other things. they are cheap and they will work. this is great because you can use it somewhere else if you have to. an adjustable open end wrench. a diagram are off/on. shut o

. >> the first thing is natural gas. what do you know about natural gas? flammable. it goes, boom. it's important to shut this off. we use it for cooking, eating and hot water. there were 40,000 people that called pg and e about their gas. that means they call turned off their gas? did they need to do that? when do you have to? when there is a problem. how long did you think it takes pg and e to get out and turn it back on? 45,000 people. days weeks, may be a month. who has seen this in the streets. a lot of muck is in there is it's full of dirt and weeds you turn it to the right to tighten it and left to loosen it. your home work you have to look at your house, pop open the lid, look in there see what's going on in there it's not nice and clean like this. who has seen this around their house? everybody. each meter has a shut off. you want to find out where your gas meter is. you can keep track of your usage but you will know how to shut it off. here's the shut off. i have some tools up here, you can look at these. any hardware store has these. they fit on this and it allows you to

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the gas fumes that escape while you are pumping gas into your car, those fumes are air pollution. that big, black rubber hood thing was designed to capture the fumes while you were pumping gas. yes, you are still putting gas into your car, which when you burn it in your car will create air pollution. you are avoiding creating a second source of air pollution with the big stink of fumes when you fill up. since the black hood thing went into place, since that regulation was put into effect back in the '90s, auto manufacturers have changed the way that gas tanks are designed. they have changed it to accommodate that concern about the fumes that escape while you're filling up. for nearly 20 years, we have been counting on that big, black plastic thing on the hose to take care of the big air stink pollution problem when you fill up at the pump. but now because auto manufacturers are taking care of it, they are taking care of that problem inside the car. they have rebuilt gas tanks so the gas tanks themselves, in the car, deal with most of the problem. because of that, those big, black,

chris falkner is ceo of blightling gas and shale. he claims the environmentalists have the upper hand in the argument over fracking. he says it is the industry's fault they do. all i know about fracking comes from environmentalists. oil companies have not been terribly public about what's going on with fracking. most people are only vaguely familiar with it. >> i think as an industry, we let other folks get the upper hand and speak for us, you speak of environmentalists, they have done a good job coming to the curve and we're late to the party with scientific data and truth behind fracking. people don't realize the first well was fracked in kansas in 1941. but no one has been talking about fracking except the last two years. >> it is one of those things people -- we alluded to this in the setup piece, people don't realize how big this is, both the discovery of how much natural gas the united states has, a staggering amount, and secondly that someone has over the past few years gotten pretty good at the process of getting it out of sh

we're not dealing with shale gas. that's why again i think it's valuable that these decisions are made on state levels. when you have a one size fit all regulation, i visited with consultants and some of the proposed rules to make absolutely no sense at all, there's not time for that here today. the states best handle these kind of policies. >> thank you. >> i thank the chair and welcome to our panel. >> i had to be at a funeral this morning after a close friend and i did not hear your testimony and i had it described to me. but if i understand correctly your testimony in essence says based on your experience in pennsylvania, you believe the other 49 states can also live with pure state regulation we don't need federal regulation in this particular enterprise, is that an accurate characterization of your testimony? >> i'm sorry. that's probably based on my experience in pennsylvania, pennsylvania is very well to regulate fracking. based on my experience with the environmental council of the states, my experience with

why is it becoming more popular to use natural gas? the reason behind the development is the price of crude oil which remains high. sam works for a company that disposes of industrial waste. he manages the company's fleet of vehicles and is thinking about adapting them so they can run on natural gas to greatly reduce fuel costs. >> well, we consume approximately $30,000 worth of fuel. >> reporter: kecler was concerned even though natural gas can reduce the cost of fuel, it might also reduce the horsepower of the trucks. on this day he decided to test drive a natural gas-powered vehicle. >> i like it. you cannot tell the difference. when you transition from the diesel to the natural gas you cannot tell a difference in the way the truck runs. >> reporter: this truck maintenance factory estimates that its revenue will grow to about $250 million in the next ten years. >> we have an incredible amount of interest from our customers to convert their diesel engines into dual fuel, diesel and natural gas. and when we are able to supply the dema

you have not talk about gas. i understand we have lots of natural gas. we have this new shale gas. it's here. we don't need to import it. it's technically -- it works. you have buses that run on gas. trucks can run on gas. what's the problem? people say there's not enough distribution. you can build gas pumps, not serve gasoline but serving gas. you can work on hydrogen fuel cells. what about the whole advance of technology which is there and works? >> i did talk a lot about gas. i talked about hydrofracking for the gas reserves of north america. the marcellis formation, and the problem is it's going to destroy the northeast to get at it. so shale gas is trapped in rock. so, yes, there is a lot of it. no question there's a lot of it. although much less than they're saying. the most recent report from the energy information administration is, they've lowered by 60% their estimates of north american shale gas. just so you know. but even so, to get at it, we're not talking about a joint reservoir that if you stick a drill in and you suck up the gas. you're talking about rock formation

out of this country, making us more dependant on foreign oil and gas, raising the price of oil and gas in order to try and keep more strings on a program that is failing our poor. we want poor kids and families when they go into the doctor's office to be able to be seen by a doctor and that's not happening. we need to address that, and we ought to empower those who are elect the at the local units of government to be able to do just that. with that i yield back to mr. rokit sgla thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to yield five minutes to mr. langford. >> thank you. it is interesting in my state that the president recently came to oklahoma, stood in curbing, oklahoma in front of a bunch of empty green oil pipes and celebrated increased domestic production, but at the same time we're talking about while we're increasing domestic production on private land, trying to now raise taxes on them, which will slow down domestic production on private land. increasing jobs in american energy is a good thing for us, and we don't need to say, okay, we can either have jobs in energy or we can have thi

not beccase gas prrces are up...2305 usuully we spend about probably 3, 400 dollars on gas on the way ddwn theee 11 but they're actually down! 22:48 i'm hhppy witt ii. laughs. it's doing, ii's doing us good 53right now... the average price of regular unleaded gas in maryllnd is it stood just over a year ago! you know we're always conscious of thhegas prices we do a lot of driving 41myranda 702 according to aaa, the price f gas has dropped for 7 weeks in a row. the longest stretch since juneeof 2011, when gas prices dipped for six straaght weeks. 122909 ever since april, right around easter e've ssen a steady decline. 12experts say falling ácrude oilá prices are partly to thank....long with the price of gas reaching its peak earlier than expected.2925 the ironic thing is this year we've seen gs prices at february eeen march and that is certaanly not the norm 34 and analystssppedict the downnard rend will only continue. aabbt of good news &pthht perhaps makes this year' memorial day... even more yes it do 7nez 17:53 yes, it 3 triple-- says we should ennoy the trend wwile it lasts. suume

keep your eye on traffic and gas prices. gas prices are going down. nearly seven under 50,000 marylanders are expected to travel this weekend and almost all those folks will be driving. that number could spike even higher if gas prices continued to fall. where are the cheapest gas prices around? >> if you're planning to go to ocean city, the cheapest gas in the state is $3.52 on the eastern shore. if you travel in ocean city, the your guess what you're down there. it is a few cents cheaper. >> that was as of yesterday. we saw a gas at $3.49 a gallon in this section of town and finksburg, $3.45. it is nice to see the gas prices go down. state police enforcing their click it or ticket campaign. reporting live, jennifer franciotti, wbal-tv 11 news. >> thank you. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. what are your memorial day holiday plans? you can share your response on wbaltv.com, on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> police continue to investigate three separate shootings with seven victims in all.

higher gas prices.e said that curbing greenhouse gas emissions would cost electricity prices to skyrocket. domestic oil production has risen each year of obama's presidency. is it fair for me to call it a conspiracy? >> i would call it cynical politics as usual. everybody knows that the u.s. president cannot, in the sort term, affect the price of gas at the pump. as it happens, the high prices in the spring were about politics, but not u.s. politics. they were mostly driven by iranian politics and markets were factoring in what looked like the very high risk of a war with iran because of it's nuclear program and that's what set the prices high. analyst were predicting the price would go as high as four or maybe five dollars. this will be an election chiefly about the economy, and you can talk about gdp and other statistics all you like, but if the price at the pump is high, that is an economic number people feel, so they went for it. >> does the president have some vulnerability on gas prices? >> i don'

it's on gas. people like i who live in a rural area, we don't have that kind of money, because we got to drive -- i got a decent job. i pity these people that don't have a good job that have to drive that far to work every day. host: thanks for all your calls. let's look at a couple of final stories in the news. in egypt, mubarak against two islamists. the results in the first round are the setbacks for hopes of a middle road. we'll follow more of what's happening on the egyptian elections tomorrow morning. we'll focus on that a little bit. in "the washington post," the moment is heralded as a milestone in the commercial mission. host: and a rift over the grover nor quist anti-tax pledge. unease could open up space for a budget deal, that's from "the washington post". and looking again at some more politics here with bipartisan flurry, becoming a do-something senate rather than a do-nothing senate. a reported in the "new york times" says the congressional chamber, where bills usually go to die, th

again, they are dissipating the gas. once the gas is out the scene is clear, inning that respect, they will go in and do their investigation as far as what led up to this and, of course, coroner will have to come out and remove the body. as far as affecting other people in the area, no evacuations. they say it is not a threat to the outside public. this will dissipate. it is more of a traffic issue for people who are here at civic center at walnut drive. this is an area, one block stretch, shut down and not affecting people trying to get to b.a.r.t. bob redell, "today in the bay." >>> new this morning, firefighters still on the scene of a stubborn house fire in oakland. it is happening on martin luther king way near 28th street. right now, the fire appears to be smoldering but much of the roof is gone. one person inside the home on the bottom floor, he got out just fine. he's not hurt this morning. fire tiers have evacuated the house and had to take -- have taken on a defensive position. >> also this morning, the groundw

also, gas prices. when they were going up, the republicans were blaming president obama saying he was harnessing fuel efficiency. what do they say now that gas prices have gone down? if mitt's experience in business makes him such a good job creator, why was massachusetts 47th in job creation when he was the governor? and etan patz, the story about how the missing child story that started it all was solved. >>> finally, shooting the messenger, chris christie explodes when told that new jersey's revenues are heading way short of estimates. we begin with the return of the birthers. >> birth certificates. >> many great times in the history of politics. >> with me now are two msnbc political analysts, joan walsh, "showdown." david, is there a constituency for donald trump? are there a group of americans out there who are waiting for a trump endorsement so they know what to do, or trump involvement so they know to whom to write checks. >> gosh, i really hope that's not the case, michael, because then we're

and we may be seeing the beginning of that with natural gas. prices of natural gas are half of what they were just seven months ago. we've seen a big price drop over the past several months and several big producers have announced they will cut back on production. exxon mobile, conocophillips and chesapeake energy have scaled back their drilling due to the glut of natural gas. there's 46% more gas in storage today compared to last year at this time. john woods trades natural gas. president of jj woods and associates with us from new york. john are these companies getting out of the looking for neutral gas at the bottom of prices. >> i think they're trying to establish a point where they say listen we're going to cut this back and we're going to try to get this market up to where it's comfortable for us. that's 275 to $3. at these lower prices, only the consumers are actually winning on this one. >> consumers are winning in a big big way, no doubt bit. what is profitable for these producers. es it significantly above the levels or a little bit.

romney quinn up theled a gas tax that was meant to go to cleanups at gas stations.it was just supposed fob for this one fund then it became a general tax that funded other things. but we have a very, very blinker conversation in this country about gas prices in general, and when it is useful for the -- they pretend that gas prices are something that get priced because somewhere in the oval office, the president turns back and forth and that is frankly not the case. gas prices are heavily driven by supply and demand, by china and india, by growing economies, by speculation. day to day, the president doesn't have a whole lot to do with the price of gas at the pump. >> and the policy that i read, that the president has virtually no control over gas prices. but mitt romney says the exact opposite. listen to this. >> do you hold president obama responsible? >> absolutely, he has not pursued policies that convince the world that america is going to become energy secure, energy independent. >> just to be clear, ezra, who's right on this? >> i actually don't know how to par

oil and gas supplies are &actua llvels since 1990.and finally, the third reason you're seeing gas pricesis because of the economy. ere in the u.s. you're seeing the momenttm for the jobs recovery slow downn also gdp econnmic also expected to slow down as pell, and it's not just ii the u.s. overseas in europe. at least 12 countries in europe are falling into a recession. so what you see is a trade-off.. lower gas prices alison kosik in new york.m - -----end-----cnn.script----- shot gunn... diiguised as waterguns.where ii maryland... police are on the lookout... for the dangerouu w. weapon. 3 33 can lulu have some beef pasta, too? -here you go, lulu. -hey?! you had an imaginary friend once, too. she's full. [ female announcer ] hamburger helper beef pasta. helpers. forty dishes, all delicious. [ female announcer ] hamburger helper stroganoff. beefy. creamy. stroganoffy. helpers. forty dishes, all delicious. gambling.what the arundel mills casino will be like tonight on fox 45 news at fivee

gas prices are still going down. >> house that is it we're excited that gas is $3.67 in some places. it is not $4. traffic is moving ok and aaa is expected more people than normal to be traveling on the roads. they say more marylanders will be traveling this memorial day weekend that last year. nearly 750,000 marylanders are expected to travel this weekend. most will be driving. we could see more drivers on the road because of gas prices falling. some of the cheapest prices will be on the eastern shore, $3.52. we found gas around $3.49 this morning. police will be out as well and working on their "click it or ticket" campaign. >> any idea how many people are not wearing seat belts? >> police say one in 16 maryland drivers and not wearing seat belts. as far as night time related crashes, over half of nighttime crashes that result in death or because of residents are not wearing seat belts. the message is that seat belts save lives. >> thank you, jen. have a great holiday weekend. >> that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. >> this morning we asked -- what are your memor

fiscal year 2011 federal oil and gas royalties exceeded $2b.7 billion. approximately half of which was paid directly to the states in which the development occurred. tribal well royalties exceeded $400 million with 100% of those revenues paid to the tribes and individual indians owning the land on which the.com occurred. oil and gas production has grown considerably and is expected to continue in coming decades. the bill estimates that approximately 90% of wells on public lands and indian lands are stimulated by hydraulic fracturing techniques. it has raised public concerns about the potential impact on water availability and quality particularly with respect to the chemical composition of fracking fluids and the methods used. it recognizes that some but not all space have recently taken action to address hydraulic fracturing in their own regulations. one of the blm's key goals in updating its regulations in hydraulic fracturing is to compliment the state efforts by providing a consistent standard across all public and indian lands. the agency has a long

natural gas wells. natural gas is a greenhouse gas. it's much more potent than co2 although shorter lived. from the standpoint of our planet and also for vocs which are precursors to the formation of smog. it's been volatile organic compounds that are responsible for the emissions in wyoming where they don't have a lot of cars or a lot of other big smog producing but they have really high smog days in certain areas. it's a combination of emissions from oil and gas development and their topography that keeps the air right where it is and they have an inversion and people are seeing smog levels as though they lived in l.a. so we can't ignore that. i thing way to deal with that and states are stepping up is we have to address air emissions, drinking water concerns. the federal government, the president has put into next year's budget proposal, his budget is we should work with the department of energy and the department of interior to do additional studies to ensure that hydraulic fraccing is done safely a

and car maintenance of them don't pay for gas. werehat there were once i alternatives to having and owning a car here in san francisco. >> about 600,000 people in the united states have joined car sharing programs and that number is expected to grow. >> it's well established, car sharing is not going anywhere. >> not only are we saving gas. but it's a great time to driving a car and it doesn't get better than that. >> reporter: researchers point out the average car share user say they save $150 to $4250 a month. >> terry: san francisco's new appointing homeless czar is making nau wet houses. they tell us san francisco's wet house proposal is modeled after seattle. >> if you don't mind, i'm going to take a drink. >> anthony been set the alcoholic. >> my ambition is to wake up in the morning and be able to open my refrigerator and have a beer. that is my ambition. i guess that is my future. >> he is no longer homeless. >> one of these days i would like to have me -- >> he lives in seattle's so-called wet houses, where they are allow

in our state, gas prices is 4.25. many people are depending upon their car which means that gas consumption is up and so are the prices. >> here in walnut creek, people are fed up with the ever rising prices at the pumps. >> that's a big bite out of my pocketbook. that's why i ride my motorcycle. >> aol a stay at home mother. i don't have a job and it takes $80 to fill number. >> the am price for average gas in the bay area is around 4.25 pairly cheaper than last month but nationally, gas prices are down since the same time last year by a little more than 20 cents a gallon. still, people we spoke with don't care because with the warmer weather comes an increase. >> 4.25 and the summer season has not hit yet. we know that the gas prices will get ramped up by summer and will be over 5 there are. >> actually, the prices at the pump may jump sooner than he thinks. gasprices.com said that refineries have been shut down for maintenance, that means that the special california blend is going to rise. >> it's too expensive. i

♪ >>> so you remember a couple of months ago -- every moment gas prices gas prices they are so high!y god the gas prices, what are we doing to do? remember this commercial? >> then and now, the difference president obama administration restricted oil production in the gulf limited develop of american oil shale and president obama personally lobbies to kill a pipeline bringing oil from canada. >> whatever happens to gas prices is definitely on obama. look at the approval disapproval on gas prices. 65% disapproved, only 26% approved. you do a propaganda campaign boom, you move the american public. mitt romney even said and i'm going to quote him here obama gets full credit or blame for what has happened in this economy. full credit or blame. let's take a look at what has happened to gas prices recently. what -- they went down! these used to be at $110. now they are at $91.50 so blame or credit? i'm waiting for the republicans to say oil prices going down i give all of the credit to president obama. have you heard it yet? i haven't heard it yet. what hns to gas prices when oil goes down

average gallon of gas in california regular gas going up 16 cents in the past week. despite the fact it's already this high, in 14 locations it's going up another 20 cents on gallon in the next few days. people are rethinking their lifestyle. they are thinking that maybe the pain at the pump will get them off the rump. take a look at people out this morning on bay street filling up their tanks and emptying out their wallets at the same time. one woman a hundred dollar fill-up in their suv. official reason only a few refineries make special blend of clean burning gasoline and three out of five in the bay area are closed for maintenance. so prices. >> some say places are dropping but dropping their car keys at te door and leaving the car behind. >> i don't really think about it i spend more time walking or use public transportation. >> so it's 2.30 in new zealand on premium. so, yeah. >> this isn't so bad. >> that works out to 9.50 per gallon of gas. if you go to new zealand you better have good credit. state average this is per gap of regular, today it is 4.25 a gallo

i think natural gas after a year's long prolonged brutal bear market i think natural gas is actually basing here against $2. >> give me a way to play it then. >> ung. just play the actual gas. i don't think you try to play the derivative plays or the companies. just get in. or futures for that matter. can you not find a natural gas bull out there and that always piques my contrarian -- >> i would argue that wilber ross is a natural gas bull. this is a pretty smart guy, pretty well known contrarians are pounding their fists on the table about nat gas. one is a buyout guy, one is a bond guy, but take that for what it's worth. >> last time dan was on the phone, i was a little critical of you last time you were on. i thought it was hyperbolic to say the stock was going to single digits. have you changed your opinion at all on that? >> did you call me out a bit, scott. maybe the single digits went a little bit too far. my point being that this was a company that was on a treadmill, your analyst hit on it where they have more of these kinds of troubles with the ceo. they are, as joe pointe

isn't natural gas all over the place? >> there's natural gas all over the place.know, the price is down. customers are switching to natural gas for a couple of reasons. one, the city has said we don't want people burning as much dirty oil. number six oil and number four oil is a lot dirtier. that's what you see at the top of the chimneys. >> and trucks that block the street. >> and the trucks that block the street. the equivalent of getting the buildings in our service area, 7,000 buildings, if they would all convert, some have to go in the next couple years, others a longer period of time, if they all converted we would see our distribution peak for gas by 50%. >> that would be huge for your profits. >> that would be huge. we would have to invest a lot in our distribution system to be able to deliver that gas to the customers. >> this is gas coming from marcellus. >> a lot of it is coming from marcellus. it'll come from other places. but a lot is coming from the marcellus. we now get about 25% of our gas from the marcellus. >> that's incredible. >> that change ha

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