The President, as you know, is very concerned about high energy prices, in particular the impact that energy prices have on prices at the gas pump because Americans are struggling to make ends meet and when prices go up at the pump it affects everything they do because of their reliance on cars for transportation to and from work and other places.

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Energy investment would go to relatively inexpensive efforts that can have a high impact over the longer term, while forsaking the dream of abundant clean energy jobs arising in the immediate future due to government subsidies.

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D. yet, but we do see a lot of impact from the tsunami and earthquake in Japan, a lot of negative consequences of high energy prices and things like that in those numbers.

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