pricewaterhousecoopers says the shale gas boom could spark a manufacturing renaissance creating 1 millionturing jobs by 2025. and think about how cheap natural gas could lower carbon emissions in china and india, where they are building four coal-fired power plants a week with disastrous environmental effects, not to mention the thousands of people who die because of coal mining. >> what really matters is what china and india does. they want more energy and they want it cheaper. so what we have to make sure is that we focus on innovation to make green energy sources so cheap they will switch. we have shown the way through the fracking of gas, but we still need to move further. we need to make green energy, solar panels, wind turbines, even cheaper. once they become cheaper than fossil fuels, everyone will buy them. >> once the natural gas terminal is up and running, they'll be able to move energy to china and india for a good profit and create jobs here at home. we've shown you many different approaches to energy in this hour, but we're saving the best for last. next, we'll show you what

when you talk to guys that track is, grant thornton, pricewaterhousecoopers, these guys file at individualt the rates going up. watching to the ipo market. these are guys who come to the ipo market and go public. we're seeing trend, 168 ipos. coming down to 134 this year. are we stalling out a little bit? is this another recessionary sign? it could be. that is the bottom line. ashley: thanks, emac. >> sure, delighted. ashley: thank you. tracy: all right. we were talking about this earlier. so if you're worried about $4 gas, just be happy you don't live in california. prices have soared 35 cents in the past week. a gallon of regular gas in the golden state now costs nearly $4.50. that is close to the state's record high of $4.61. we hit that back in 2008. it is also 70 cents higher than the national average which sits at around $3.79 a gallon now. this might not be the end. analysts say prices could go higher because refinery outages and pipeline problems are leaving the state tight on supplies. but then again wholesale prices fell today and you know, drivers are not only ones getting squee

this is from pricewaterhousecoopers. 1,000 fortune 500 executives surveyed. 3/4 said economic uncertaintys top risk. they cited health reform, regulatory risk and tax policy. look at this one from the u.s. chamber of commerce. you will see here 83%, virtually a majority of nearly 1400 small businesses say they're not hiring due to uncertainty about fiscal policy. they're also worried about tax and regulatory policy. also health reform. we move on. national small business association. you will see there, nearly 70% say uncertainty again is why they're not hiring. also they're worried about their own survival as a business. you will see it, nfib, the national federation of independent businesses. it too is saying uncertainty about the economy, health care reform, and d.c. policy the top reason why they're not hiring some this debate really, really matters because the people who read paul krugman aad that side of the aisle would say government spending is how you're going to fix the u.s. economy. and business executives are saying wait a second there is really uncertainty about d.c. policy.