his farm sits on a gas hot spot. he is worried about the impt on wer sourc in the region, particularly of chemicals used in these processes leak. he believes other forms of pollution may follow. some do except that poland's gas reserves are economically important but ty are opposed to the fracking process itself. >> in this village in the grip of winter, farmers are also concerned. they maintain they were given little information by the authorities or the gas companies before the drilling began. residents here say the gas industry has presented a misleading image of fragging. fracking. the film maker behind "gas land" recently pledged solidarity with polish activists. >> there is no evidence that shale gas can be developed sustainably. there is no evidence that we can withstand what this would mean for our climate. >> there is no way to extract shale gas without using hydraulic fracture stimulation. >> your tracks the claims that committees have been left in the dark. >> i have been to poland. i've been in the meetin

natural gas? >> i agree with everything mark said. i'm long natural gas, too.il and long on natural gas. he's right, you can get a lot more leverage off the gas than you can off the oil. anthony: you're long fundamentally through the end of 2016, though, is that correct? i sort of think this is going up from here. >> i'm not long nearby contracts. i'm long out. anthony: outdated contracts. >> right. anthony: what do you think about that, mark? does that make sense? >> it does, the problem is, boone knows, long contracts, you expect the price to be $50-55 toward the end of the year, the market is in a tango state, the market is priced in, the spot price is 43, the market in december is it 48? i don't know where that is right now. so again, boone's 100% right. to me, i'm all about where is the biggest roi, return on my investment in energy space? with the leverage and the price of natural gas getting decimated over the last year, year and a half, there's more leverage and less risk buying dips in natural gas than there is in trying to go ahead and make the extra

tax you pay because the more gas you punchs. however, the gas tax has been decreasing and in recent years due to improvements in fuel efficiency and increase in hybrid and electric vehicles on the road. so the road use charge was recommended for study as a replacement to this user fee for transportation projects. it would charge a fee per mile oppose today per gallon as the gas tax is curbtly collected. this is made possible in pard due to a number of technology advancements we have seen in recent years. some may be clar with straba which is tracking mileage people are traveling just via bike or by running. so, in this system fuel efficient vehicles will pay the same fee per mile as older less efficient vehicles. so, the road use charge is seen as more equitable due to the fact it charges ever user the same amount for the amount they travel and gets you closer to a true user fee by calculating how much you are driving and charging you based on that. right now what they are studying is how the road use charge would be able to rep

. >>> experts are warning drivers to brace for higher gas prices during the summer season.rices usually climb in the spring as refineries switch to summer blend of gas that analysts say is more expensive to produce but reduces pollution. another factor in rising prices increased demand. >> right now in our area gallon of regular unleaded is averaging 2.22 in the state of pennsylvania. new jersey a buck 90 and in delaware, it's $1.96. >>> you saw new jersey has the lowest gas prices in our area. some would argue that they have the best customer service as well. >> and tonight it brings up a good question. why is it only full service in the garden state? nicole brewer put her pedal to the metal and went looking for answers. nicole. >> but first i filled up in new jersey. >> why not? >> yes, you did. >> chopper, they do it for you. here's the deal. all gas stations started out as full service operations and these days only new jersey and oregon do it the old-fashioned way. so that left viewers nicole congo, dawn and kim harper all wondering, why don't you pump your own gas in

do they go for the gas? do they aim for the other cars. season one, turn one, 20 cars all firing to the same corner. that's the moment where the questions are answered. >> in a few decades it's unlikely any professional race also involve gasoline, and they may not even involve a human at the wheel. jacob ward, al jazeera, long beach, california. >> historic front on the basketball court. university of connecticut is once again champions of women's college basketball. >> the national championship goes to connecticut for the fourth year in a row! >> an undefeated season by easily beating syracuse 82-51, and only players in college basketball, men or women, to win four titles in a row. >> they've left an imprint on this game that will last a really long time. and i think it's a blueprint for kids coming in after them that if you want to know how to do it, they showed everybody how to do it. and they did it the right way. >> their unbeaten season is uconn's sixth in program history. they extended their winning streak to 75 straight games and t

. >>> experts are warning drivers to brace for higher gas prices during the summer season.rices usually climb in the spring as refineries switch to summer blend of gas that analysts say is more expensive to produce but reduces pollution. another factor in rising prices increased demand. >> right now in our area gallon of regular unleaded is averaging 2.22 in the state of pennsylvania. new jersey a buck 90 and in delaware, it's $1.96. >>> you saw new jersey has the lowest gas prices in our area. some would argue that they have the best customer service as well. >> and tonight it brings up a good question. why is it only full service in the garden state? nicole brewer put her pedal to the metal and went looking for answers. nicole. >> but first i filled up in new jersey. >> why not? >> yes, you did. >> chopper, they do it for you. here's the deal. all gas stations started out as full service operations and these days only new jersey and oregon do it the old-fashioned way. so that left viewers nicole congo, dawn and kim harper all wondering, why don't you pump your own gas in

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of gas.ir report warns that will mean up to 14 days of blackouts during the hot summer months, also residents should expect an additional 8 to 18 days of outages later in the year. it's another problem for a community that has already suffered health problems to expose sure to the methane gas cloud. >> our 13 year old daughter, she has been sick as well, and missed school, and has a horrible, horrible cough. >> reporter: the state's anal cyst has drawn protests from the utility industry. they say they have plenty of gas to serve the needs, and reports hinting at blackouts are irresponsible. >>> the panama paper scandal now threatens the new leader of international soccer. they say he signed a contract in 2006 with an off-shore company. today swiss police raided their offices in zurich, he says he is dismayed by the report and that his integrity is being doubted. >>> more help is coming to researchers tries to stop the zika virus any obama administration says it will transfer money left over f

we weren't going to allow ordinary folks to get out of their cars and pump gas. >> that was back in 1949. two years after the country's first self service station opened. >> do you think it's still applies. >> it can be safety issue. i've seen people pull away with nozzles in their car. it's not a pretty sight. >> no more dangerous in pennsylvania than in new jersey. >> when it's raining and it's snowing and it's cold outside. >> you can just pull up you don't have to get out of your car especially at night. >> i actually love new jersey because you don't have to get out of your car. >> there are some who oppose it. >> i believe it drives the price up. >> critics say drivers in new jersey could save anywhere from five to 7 cents a gallon if they pumped their own gas. >> we might save but in the long run it would affect their economy because people may not have jobs. >> with some of the lowest gas prices in the country, egan jones says it's best to leave well enough alone. >> you get more bank for your

on important gas. sigar has been unable to find any evidence that they considered the myriad of potential obstacles to the project, including the lack of a natural gas transmission and distribution infrastructure, the cost of converting gas powered cars to run on natural gas as well as the lack of a market. as a result, the project failed. the second project you wished us to discuss has to do with tfbso spending of $150 million, or approximately 20% of their overall budget, on providing private villas, and security for their staff while in afghan staff. to date, again, sigar, as well as the office of the secretary of defense policy shop, have been unable to find any evidence that tfbso conducted a cost benefit analysis of quote-unquote living on the economy, rather than in u.s. government facilities in afghanistan. in fact, in a memo from june 2011, then tfbso director paul brinkley directed all tfbso personnel in afghanistan to move back to us military base s. it remains unclear as to why mr. brinkley

the output is that you got a gas station. the output is you got 400 taxi drivers got their cars converted at u.s. taxpayer expense. they're very happy. >> i'm just trying to make sure that we understand the circumstance. >> the total dollars spent over your audit, not you personally but your auditing, how much money spence over those 16, total dollars that? >> trillion. >> not a trillion, no sir. we had about. >> just for example, you do a physical sample in order to project an air raid across the biggers peace. so you found an air with visit ties, your overall air rate, what was that entire right. >> 90 to 95% serve. >> so 95% of what deal a spec, we spent wrong. >> yes of the sample that we collected. >> so did you expand your sample. >> no sir. >> why not? >> so make sure we get the record straight here. they spent half a billion dollars? >> not on these parts are. >> what you'd do a physical sample of you not try to extrapolate that if you not going to look at all 5 million parts, how many parts in your universe man? >> 2

we have proven that we have a lot of natural gas. is not just the global warming impact, but it is an air toxin to those miles away. there were headlines about southern california gas company spending months to shut down a leaking well that prompted thousands of residents to relocate. paul in connecticut, democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. my question to the congressman is, why is it that we do not wage the war of ideas more forcefully? you have spoken this morning about bombing, etc. but the war of ideas and waging that is something that we seem to be hesitant to do. for instance, we had the kabulble bombing in cob yesterday with much loss of life, and i imagine the majority of the people that were killed were muslims. and it would seem to me that by publicizing that and perhaps listing the names of all of the people that were killed that we could begin to peel away some of the support that the terrorists have by shaming them. doing more of that kind of think, turnld, i the tide against them. answer, ibefore the w

gas. environmental and economic strategic reasons, it was american policy to help countries get out from under the constant use of coal, building coal plants all the time and get out from under come especially if they were in europe, the pressure from russia, which has been incredibly intense. we did say natural gas is a bridge. we want to cross that bridge as quickly as possible. to deal with climate change, we have to move as rapidly as we can. deploy half aus billion more solar panels by the and enoughirst term clean energy to provide electricity to every home in america within 10 years. i have bold goals, but i know to get from where we are where this world is still burning too much , were the world is still too intimidated by providers like russia, we have to make a firm but decisive move in the direction of clean energy. [applause] >> here is a real difference. this is the difference between understanding that we have a consequencestorical , incrementalism and little steps are not en

and a gas station in pakistan, similar to the gas station, cost only $200,000. today, we are going to discuss two dysfunctional dod programs that are desperately in need of oversight and budgetary common sense. the first is dod's ill-conceived and badly executed ua-aid knockoff. the task force for business and stability operations. tfbso for short. starting in afghanistan in 2010, tfbso was supposed to catalyze economic development in support of the military. but according to sigar, they have received more complaints, more complaints about fraud, waste, and abuse over the last two years than any other organization operating in afghanistan. even compared with the old boondoggles in afghanistan, the short sightedness and sheer absurdity of the projects is mind boggling. they're tailor made ammunition for critics of our misadadventurer here. we'll also discuss poor practices which put our service men and women at risk. at the core of this hearing is what do we have to show for our money? for tfbso, i can say the answer to the question is not much. here's what we go

on important gas. sigar has been unable to find any evidence that they considered the myriad of potential obstacles to the project, including the lack of a natural gas transmission and distribution infrastructure, the cost of converting gas powered cars to run on natural gas as well as the lack of a market. as a result, the project failed. the second project you wished us to discuss has to do with tfbso spending of $150 million, or approximately 20% of their overall budget, on providing private villas, and security for their staff while in afghan staff. to date, again, sigar, as well as the office of the secretary of defense policy shop, have been unable to find any evidence that tfbso conducted a cost benefit analysis of quote-unquote living on the economy, rather than in u.s. government facilities in afghanistan. in fact, in a memo from june 2011, then tfbso director paul brinkley directed all tfbso personnel in afghanistan to move back to us military base s. it remains unclear as to why mr. brinkley

we weren't going to allow ordinary folks to get out of their cars and pump gas. >> that was back in 1949. two years after the country's first self service station opened. >> do you think it's still applies. >> it can be safety issue. i've seen people pull away with nozzles in their car. it's not a pretty sight. >> no more dangerous in pennsylvania than in new jersey. >> when it's raining and it's snowing and it's cold outside. >> you can just pull up you don't have to get out of your car especially at night. >> i actually love new jersey because you don't have to get out of your car. >> there are some who oppose it. >> i believe it drives the price up. >> critics say drivers in new jersey could save anywhere from five to 7 cents a gallon if they pumped their own gas. >> we might save but in the long run it would affect their economy because people may not have jobs. >> with some of the lowest gas prices in the country, egan jones says it's best to leave well enough alone. >> you get more bank for your

you to the frozen north where america's allies are lacked in a huge standoff over deposits of oil and gas. i'll give you a firsthand look at how arctic melting has fueled old tensions between enemies. all week long al jazeera america is showcasing a selection of your stories. they are some of the most important news events we've covered on this channel for you and one of them has been the new cold war between russia and the west. the tensions now extend from the battlefields of syria to the sea lanes of the arctic but the bad blood started in 2014 with the war in ukraine. two years on russia still backs separatist rebels fighting the ukraine government. tonight i'm taking you on the front line with russia, poland, roromania, bulgaria, and competg for special natural resources with new urgency. let's again the journey now with a special report. it's 10 a.m. on an autumn morning in stra tran sylvania. it is a routine nato exercise in military readiness. >> one minute! >> but demonstrations of force like this have taken on a influence urgency for the west. here beside the carpathian mountain

if you do have natural gas prices turn around to three , you will havee gas prices go higher, gas demande power sector go down and then cold will run. -- coal will run. the companies will come out leaner and wiser. peabody, their minds are still operating -- mines are still operating in a cash flow positive. there is major downside for the usedt of coal being medium to longer-term. there needs to be a rightsizing of the industry. , theal demand goes down production site needs to be more nimble to account for that. there is a path for these companies to survive over the median or longer-term. even though the made the mistake in the short term of buying out the australian company, they beat their survivor by getting to the asian market -- david: amidst all the talk about clean coal and where this industry is heading, the technology has not been able to keep up without quickly the declines were. has not been any kind of major breakthrough like we've seen in natural gas production. fracking has changed the game. reason coal demand is declining -- there is not a similar technological breakthr

>> a man pinned under a flaming gas tank. >> don't let me burn. don't let me die. >> a stalled plane drops from the sky. >> started diving. holy crap. >> everything goes blank after that. >>> a little girl stumbles on the edge of a cliff. >> oh, my god! >>> a family's roof gone with the wind. >> it sounded like an explosion. >> whoa! >>> one bungee jumper's cord wraps around his neck. >> i saw my life flash before my eyes. >> another's snaps. slamming him into the water. >> i was the most scared i've ever been in my life. >>> inches away from disaster, seconds away from death. >>> hello. welcome to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. every day we go about our daily routines never thinking that at any moment we could suddenly find ourselves in harm's way. not much feels as ordinary as a trip to the convenience store, sightseeing in the park, or even filling up your gas tank. but as one ohio man discovered, trouble could be lurking just around the corner. a carpenter filling up his gas tank suddenly finds himself pinned to the ground, surrounde

what about natural gas. a few years ago, we could liquefy cheap natural gas. is so hard to transport across the ocean. we have to freeze it. prices for natural gas in europe were much higher than we were here. if we could produce the stuff here, sell it over in china, you'd make a fortune from 2010 through the beginning of 2015, this thing was unstoppable about the concept has taken a beating. these days natural gas in asia sells for 4.$4.24. it's a lot less lucrative than it was a few years ago. china's economy is turning. euro europe's getting steam. there's one man who understands this industry better than anyone else, the founder and former ceo of energy. he's clearly still a believer, because a couple months ago, he co founded a new company. which is focused on building low cost terminals along the gulf coast. welcome back to mad money. how are you? >>. >> i have to tell you. you came along when the stock was at 8. i cannot imagine that you're not cheniere what happened? >> a difference of opinion and maybe a little bit of misconception. >> you founded th

melting ice caps are unlocking vast rimps oil an riches of oil and gas. they are opening up new shipping routes on top of the world. but the arctic is still an untamed wilderness and the extreme weather could pose mortal threats to both shippers and explorers. that means despite recent sanctions over ukraine, russia and the west still rely on each other to keep their people safe. i sat down with the man in charge ever coordinating norway's search and rescue efforts with russia. these days most everybody is complaining about russia and you actually have one of the better riches with russia. >> yeah, in search and rescue we still have a very good cooperation with russia. we need to help each other because the distribution in the area we don't have that many rescue efforts so we need the assist each other. >> that help will be needed more than ever in coming years. as the ice melts, the arctic offers commercial cargo ships a faster route between europe and asia. it's an often dangerous passageway subject to extreme weather conditions and the traffic is growi

the arctic is home to 13% of the world's undiscovered oil, and a third of its natural gas. eight nations lay claim to this fast melting landscape including russia, canada and the united states. they, alongside china, are all pursuing huge reserves of oil, gas and coal. >> reporter: russia's resurgence has been fueled by hydrocarbons that come from the subarctic and if they are to stay powerful they need more from the arctic. >>> russia staked its claim to billions in oil and gas deposits. planting a russian flag on the ocean floor under the north poll. canada and the u.s. scoffed, the move uerscores the growing importance of the region. to get a firsthand look i headed north, way north to the northern most town in the world on an island in the high arctic called spalvar. many facings including russia are eyeing this once sleepy coal mining settlement as a strategic base in this arctic frontier. i'm here in norway, much closer to the north pole than to oslo. this is frequented by polar bares. are bears. they were trying to find a reservoir to put it underground and they came

. >>> i returned from oklahoma city, $gas wd1 -- gas was $1.67. but we have gorgeous weather. >> we'll take it. >> it was 80 yesterday. >> we'll be pushing 80 tomorrow. today is moderate warm up. good morning everyone. this is the scene from the transamerica pyramid. right now i can see the tip top of the bay bridge which stands 525 feet from the water. this morning we have thin overcast, 48 in santa rosa, 55 in san francisco. he hi morning stepping on out -- this morning stepping out, the winds are 10 miles an hour in the concord walnut creek area. the winds are going to become blustery late in the afternoon. 10 to 20, occasional stronger gusts. today will be the windier day with the moderate warmup tomorrow. 60s beaches, 70s another the peninsula. 76 degrees to the east, inland. 75 in sanity rosa. i have your full forecast in a few minutes. >>> we've got an overturned vehicle at joaquin miller. blocking two lanes. chp on scene. been out there for at least 45 minutes. injuries reported. not seeing too many delays. it's still very early as you tra

but the gas attacks didn't happen. even so, the mobilization of british society in 1939 in 1940 was enormously helpful when those calming attacks began. it was an attack totally the similar from what had been expected. the fact that society had been mobilized, the people were ready for action, even if the action they anticipated were -- was not helpful. the fact is these days, most are not prepared for any kind of disaster. some are. as you know from the book, i spent a lot of time with the mormons. they are prepared for a must any kind of disaster as individual families and as a church culture. it is worth studying their example to see what can we learn. >> what would you recommend? what can we learn? ted koppel: the first thing is going to be is we are going to run out of food there quickly. we have no electricity. a city like new york city. state of new york has or at least had when i was researching the work, 23 million meals ready to eat. that sounds like an enormous amount of food. people in new york citalone, th

the community has already suffered health problems from exposure to the methane gas spill. >> our 13ld daughter has been sick as well, and missed school. >> reporter: the state's analysis has drawn protests from the utility industry. one executive saying plenty of natural gas remains to serve the region's typical summer needs, and that reports hinting at blackouts are irresponsible. >>> a new development today on that rolling stone article about the alleged gang rape at the university of virginia. the central figure has been ordered to answer questions in a federal defamation lawsuit. an associate dean while -- filed the suit against rolling stone. >>> there is growing backlash to a new mississippi law. companies like ibm and microsoft has condemned the bill. as al jazeera's paul beban tells us, it's the latest anti-lbgt law passed in the south. >> reporter: the governor wasted no time signing the bill hours after the legislature approved it. >> i think it protects the religion freedoms, and so did the legislature, and so do the majority of the people of mississippi. >> reporter: but

. >>> we're on the scene of a major gas explosion, a giant fireball. a home incinerated, utility lines ignited. a community on alert. >>> two separate air scares at one american airport tonight. smoke inside the cabin. the oxygen masks. and the evacuation. passengers left on the tarmac. >>> and, developments in the case of the boys lost at sea. for the first time, video of the boys that fateful day. amid the battle over the iphone the decision now in. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us on a friday night. and we begin with donald trump forced to hike around a giant crowd of protesters at an event in san francisco. this was the scene, police holding back hundreds of protesters, but they broke through the barricades, forcing trump and his motorcade to go around. you can see trump jumping down the step, climbing up the grass to get to the back door. here's cecilia vega, leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, throngs of angry protesters in san francisco blocking roads, knocking down barricades, clashing with police in riot gear. and when donald

, because tear gas, it stays, it lingers in the system. >> yes. i'm not sure i understand your question very, very well but yes, we are seeing patients arriving with those injuries, yes, and we are clear, we have patients arriving, and there are rubber bullets and tear gas canisters being collected on the ground. >> many thanks here on the al jazeera news hour. >>> nearly 3 million syrians are now in turkey including children separated from their families. harry fossett went to meet the parents of 111-year-old who vanished off the streets of istanbul. >> the david family has been through a lot, the terror of water in their syrian hometown, aleppo, the struggle to get out for the sake of their five children. it was nothing compared to what happened when they made it here, the disappearance of their 9-year-old daughter. >> give me back my daughter, for god said mercy. i won't even stay here, even if the bombs are falling, i'll go back to sir yes, but i can't go without my daughter. >> described as a quick with id girl, was playing outside the house

a shortage of gas. their report warns that will mean up to 14 days of blackouts during the hot summer months. also, residents should expect an additional 8 to 18 days of outages later in the year. it's another problem for a community that's already suffered health problems from exposure to the methane gas cloud. >> this is for my older boy, and this is imi t. rex he is taking for migraines. >> my 13-year-old daughter has been sick as well, missed school and with a horrible, horrible could have. >> the state's analysis is drawing protests from the utility company. some say plenty remains to serve summer needs and reports hinting at blackouts are irresponsible. >> officials believe the storage facility won't be operational again for many months. so far, none of the aliso facilities 114 remaining wells have passed their required tests to ensure another league won't occur. >> is the state asking consumers there to conserve, to cut back? >> absolutely. they are asking people to take shorter showers, turn dow

cory: we've seen historic collapse of natural gas prices.you feel like that has hurt the development of solar, and if natural gas prices rise when we see even faster growth in the solar energy? >> natural gas has replaced almost half the cold the manpower for generation. it has made the wind and solar industry recognized that we have to aggressively lower our costs. you cannot build a new power plant very efficiently at the low cost we are paying for gas right now. it is not created to many new power plants, as many as you might think. the wonderful thing about renewables to keep in mind is, we did these contracts for 25 years and they may escalate at 1% per year for 25 years. inflation may be at 2%. nobody even in the gas industry thinks ask will be staying down there for 25 years. if you tried to do a 25 year contract with the gas producer, you will be paying many times what the current cost is. it really stabilizes the economics retail rates to the ratepayers by doing solar and wind. gas prices will stay down for the next couple of years

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coal, natural gas, and petroleum. and this will not change anytime soon. the department of energy's own energy information administration predicts that coal will still make up about a third of electricity generation for ged decades to come. if the administration itself acknowledges that these fuels will be critical to electricity generation, we must ensure that we are using these in the cleanest way possible. therefore, we must continue to make should that investment in research and development for clean coaltecnologies. the fund something $272 million above the president's request and the president's proposed cut and those proposed by some of my colleagues as we move through the markup we anticipate proposed cuts to fossil fuel research, in my are shortsighted because they fail to realize the value of the research that's being done in places like the national energy technology lab in morgan town, west virginia. that's known as nettle, which has reorganized and restructured its budget to be more transparent so we can understand what's going on there and wh

fuel cells like these made by bloom technology typically run on natural gas to produce energy, touted as a cleaner alternative to the traditional power grid, bloom's technology has benefited from $400 million in incentives but in a report published last last year, staff found electric fuel cells that run on natural gas pollute too much and are not worth further investment. the message confirms what we pointed out on our broadcast last year. >> we should not be having our money to prop up polluting technologies. >> the s-chip program has provided more than $1 billion in incentives to so-called green technologies. bloom energy received the lion's share of rate payers' subsidies. it is now recommended that funding no longer be provided for natural gas electric fuel cells. >> i'm really pleased that the staff at the public utilities commission took a close look at the evidence. >> marcel is an energy attorney for turn. >> turn strongly supports eliminating fuel cells that use natural gas and funding only clean distributed generations. >> reporter: the technologies that benefit from public

that is the equivalent of 30 gas powered stations.lways have an energy and element of nuclear. we need solar, offshore, and onshore is a nightmare here. this gives you predictable security power, which becomes more and more efficient and it gives you an export market with zero carbon and we have a climate change act in the u.k. and a global agreement that we will d carbonized caroline: when you have oil prices at $30 a barrel, how does that affect negotiation. how does that affect your longer-term aspirations to have affected and competitive this can they? keith: if anything, it helps. if anyone will put the 10 billion pound project into investment in new oil fields is gone. shale gas -- how much debt is there in the u.s. economy? i heard $200 billion of debt in those companies with equity at risk. none of those survive at oil prices of $30. most need $70 to $80. we will see a carbon tax of some sort or a carbon ration if we are going to meet the two degree rule. we are going to ration what we do with oil and gas. there will always be

the whole opened up during storms we saw last month and ruptured a gas line as well. investigators, though, finally got a close-up look at the problem last week and now they say it will cost $3.5 million to fill the sinkhole and to repair nearby marine boulevard. >>> san jose is extending water restrictions through june. those mandatory restrictions expired yesterday, but the city council approved that extension saying this winter's rainfall has not been enough to recover from the drought. the city aims to cut water use by 30%, which started last april. meanwhile, the state is considering easing mandatory water restrictions in may. >>> part of fremont boulevard will close tonight for maintenance work on railroad tracks next to the roadway. the boulevard will close at 10:00 tonight. no word on how long that railroad work is being done by caltrans and by union pacific. >>> say railroad work three times fast. >>> up next at 11:00, remember the d.c. madam scandal from 2007? someone connected to that case now claims that he has information that could shake up the current r

nurses were trained in dealing with the aftermath of poison gas. for reasons that no one has ever totally understood, hitler never attacked great britain with gas. there was a massive bombardment of great britain, but the gas attacks didn't happen. even so, the mobilization of british society in 1939 and 1940 was enormously helpful when those bombing attacks began. it was an attack totally dissimilar from what had been expected, but the fact that society had been mobilized, that people were ready for action even if the action they were anticipating was not what happened was helpful. the point i'm making is tom ridge may have been totally off the mark with what he recommended in the wake of 9/11. but the fact is these days most americans aren't prepared for any kind of disaster. some are. as you know from the book, i spent a lot of time with the mormons, and the mormons are prepared for almost any kind of disaster as individual families and as a church culture. and it's worth studying their example to see what can be done. >> host: what can we learn

because they produce so much gas. tom: because they produce so much gas.r natural gas fields. if the company were to stop drilling, you are going to see declines in the 25% to 40% range year-over-year. alix: and that is not going to come back? tom: it will over time, but you have to start spending cash flow to do that. and remember, the company's income or their cash flow is going down as rises go down. not as much field to spend. alix: do you feeling investors will let them outspend their cash flow again? tom: i do. alix: why? tom: because most investors are greedy. reporter: the appeal of commodities. looking at the view on the commodity market, don't depend on crude getting back to 50, 17, a different strategy in place. >> even the we have seen this pop in crude over the last month, we are going to see .ompanies in the energy space they have to have $60, $70, $80 crude. the way to play energy is through the infrastructure. these are companies with real aspects, real cash flows, and they have the ability to survive and continue to grow even in a $40 crud

>> finally natural gas turned.ll the commodities and resources had this downward movement and had an uptick as the dollars come back down. natural gas is the last stop to make this upturn, led with gold and copper and oil. natural gas made lows last month and just a month ago. $2 is important. but 2.50 is what it takes, 2.50, 2.60 to get to the midpoint of action last year. last year's high was made in july. a lot of natural gas usage happens in the summertime with air conditioning, now that generates what half of the electricity in america. so it is a little bit of a fundamental that most people aren't aware. most people think this cold time like teed oday is what drives t market. >> it is a perfect example of how price draws supply to the market. nat gas at 16, then above 20 and the massive glut that happens because of people like aubrey mcclendon and two bucks now. let's say i run a pizza -- pizza rew ria or something. should i take that or could it go lower? >> i don't think you want to play it much lower. 1.75

the gas industry lobbyists are.she's basically taking money from the lobbyists for those very companies that would oppose the policies that she is pledged to. r respond to the clclinton campaign and other campaigns saying they cannot control what kind of contributions come to super pacs, even that support them that they're working independently? >> well, legally, they cannot control it, but she can say she does no one her super pac taking any money from the fossil fuel industry, and they would abide by that. you know, and sanders, of course, said he did not want any super pacs. so it is really a question of leadership here and whether or not she wants to pledge not to take any money from the industry to demonstrate person 30 about the many good policies -- demonstrate her sincerity about the many good policies. amy: in the paper is says -- >> again, these are -- 58 of these lobbyists, many work for exxonmobil or the gas industry, so it is kind of, you know, insincere for kessler does say that these are small because

stuart: the oil and the gas industry have delivered cheap home heating oil, cheap natural gas to heatour house, cheap gasoline, all of those enjo i had by poor and elderly new yorkers and they're railing against the oil and gas industry. it makes no sense to me. >> i don't know when companies got to be enemy number one and the whole of the democratic party now, we're hearing anti-pharma, anti-oil, anti-banks. well, these are all services that we all live on and need and i don't know why it's gotten to be enemy number one. it's important that we have these services each and every day. aside from that, hillary clinton is clearly having issues. look what she's going through in new york, it's at play. we've got-- >> i think so. stuart: bernie is catching up with her. a few months ago he was 30 points behind. latest poll i saw 12 points behind. lee carter, thanks indeed. oil, the price thereof, is down. the news on oil is that the saudies are not committing to an oil production freeze until iran does. how about tesla, stock of the day, surprises everyone with massive pre-orders for its new