. >> this is mike vitale. >> i yield. >> thank you. i think the answer quite frankly is as leaders, every generation learns and understands how society is changing. clearly, that is true for all of us as well and this has been going on for some time. leaders should have been aware from it all along. i would argue just the gentleman's comment about learning about what's going on in colleges, we have probably surmised this for some time. but now we have the data. with the data we can take action. for the last few years, we have been extremely focused on trying to ensure that we are in fact eliminating this problem. i would argue that given that, we need to ourselves recognize that it is not a broken system that requires radical surgery. it just needs tuning. you could make the argument that tuning could be done by the legislation. but i would argue that the tuning can be done but the fact that the commanders are now well aware of the challenge trying to do what is right to take care of that challenge. giving a time to make that happen, i

we have these opportunities right now with a vital mix of crude oil or mike natural gas or we have so much more where we are going to be exporting it and in fact my favorite story is prided ourselves and we could always sell the rest. that is what we want to do with natural gas and we want to do whatever we can and sell it out in the chemical industry because of the reasonable price of natural gas in south texas. we want those downstream jobs and we also know we have enough ex-or. >> what you think about the idea? >> we do have a national energy policy and to try to adjust it in 2007, we think that it was a diversified portfolio for our folks to come. so filing this debate even within the republican congress, it it is an argument with corn and beans and crude oil it should be a worldwide market and the return on the investment of really having the opportunity to get the additional jobs if we can expand this to sell the export refined product. we do that based upon our cover standards as well and it less difficult standards around the world. so that is what we would rather he because i

vital for commerce and commuters. on lake michigan where the coast guard has been hard at work breaking through some of that ice, mikestory on that now. hey, mike. >> reporter: and bill, i don't know how well you can see through the driving snow here, but this frozen tundra behind me, this is lake michigan. in the rare case that it freezes up like this, shipping locks up as well. so the nation depends on the ice breakers with the u.s. coast guard. with ice on the great lakes nearing record levels, the crew of the ice breaker biscayne bay finds the call of duty as far south as chicago for the first time in their careers with the coast guard. you can see it from the satellites. the great lakes are nearly 80% frozen. >> usually the normal tugs can handle the ice. this year it's getting a little too thick for them, so the coast guard had to bring an ice breaker down to help. >> reporter: ice is broken by the weight of the cutter, from air bubbled out of the hull. even the wake is often enough to create a shipping lane. what we're into now is called wind roads. this is where the wind has driven the ice to stack up on itse