mr. nunley, thank you for your patience. you're the end of the line here. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, secretary, for being here. before you were nominated, you were quoted as saying, quote, somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in europe. i can't look at motivations, i have to look at results. under this administration, the price of gasoline is doubled. while bumping $4 a gallon in north mississippi, today the price of gasoline in europe was about $8 a gallon. and the people of north mississippi can't be here, so i have to be here and be their voice for them. and i have to tell you that $8 a gallon gasoline makes them afraid. it's a cruel tax on the people of north mississippi as they try to go back and forth to work. it's a cloud hanging over economic development and job creation. and it appears to me this administration continues to drag its feet on oil exploration or possible fuel development and recovery. how do you respond to that? >> well, i think -- absolutely we should be judged on what we are doing, and i should be judged on