. >> and now, the program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. >> barry worthington is the executive director of the united states energy association. welcome to the broadcast. >> thank you for having me. >> what is the relationship between the united states energy association and the world energy council? >> we belong to the council as a country. there are 90 members. we're the u.s. affiliate. we have counterparts in the other 90 countries. >> what is your mission? >> we strive to develop a dialogue and forum for conversation for people inside the energy industry and those outside to understand how the energy systems work. >> it is more important than it has ever been as we have reached 7 billion people. >> this week, according to the united nations. whoever that child is the was the 7 billionth, there is about a 1/3 chance that they were born in a modern economy with a viable energy. >> which means also having food and water available. >> it does. you cannot have food or water without energy. there's also 1/3 of the chance they were born in a

and now your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. >> hello again, and thank you for coming along. bill gouse, my guest, is going to discuss with me transportation. how did you get involved in transportation? >> well, i guess it is around the early birthday of mine. i got a truck when i was 2 years old. >> this truck? amazing. and i take you are an adult now? >> i play with these things. i call it that because i'm a designers in -- a designer and policymakers. >> where do we see them? there are so many on the highways, they seem to put out too much diesel excrement. sometimes they cut us off, and sometimes, when we pass them, we suddenly get blown off the road when the prevailing wind comes around the side of the truck and we are not anticipating it. >> we sort of have a strange love/hate relationship with it, because everything we have comes on that. a train does not pull up to the cul-de-sac of my house. something has to come by truck at some point. so we need our stuff. we need our medicine, our food, our diapers. our grass seed t

and now your program host, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host linda gasparello. hello again, and thank you for coming along. i promised you wonderful people, and here they are. i am joined by greg of srn news, by daniel stone of "newsweek." and by an old friend of this program, george wilson of sirius xm radio. welcome to the broadcast. >> always a pleasure. >> and someone else from sirius xm radio, and the first time on, pamela kirkland. pamela, welcome to our company. off we go. dan, what is happening at the white house? the president is on the road all the time. two battleground states, states that it says it is not political but would seem to be conspicuously political. what do you think? >> over the past couple of months we have seen the president's turn -- the president turned squarely toward campaigning not just to sell his jobs bill but to sell his reelection next year. we see the republican race heating up, and the president is getting out there to save face. one of his new catch phrase is to try to defend his 2008 campaign. he said, look, change is...