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++Question on Romney's car line today-Newt implied making an issue of it was "silly." "I know there are times when this has to be silly. That's silly." Gingrich remarks: 19:06:03 I am glad to be here and we had a great meeting with the House members. About to go meet with the Senate members. As many of you know, we had very good events in Tri-cities with some 800 people yesterday. And in Spokane with over 600 people. We're going to go on to Federal Way and then up to Everett. But I really want to take a minute to say that tomorrow at the California State Convention, I'm going to take President Obama's energy speech yesterday, which is one of his more absurd speeches, and I'm going to methodically step-by-step go through and show you why what he's saying is absolute nonsense on energy. I'm going to take President Obama's energy speech yesterday which is one of his more absurd speeches, and I'm going to methodically step by step go through and show you why what he's saying is absolute nonsense on energy. The fact is the price of gasoline when he became president was 1.89 a gallon. The price when I was speaker was 1.13 a gallon. There's no reason we can't get back to a reasonably priced gasoline, reasonably priced at around 2.50 a gallon -- the president's speech yesterday -- the idea of offering algae as an alternative to drilling is such a stretch, and I favor biofuels and I know people at Texas A and M who are working on algae, but the idea that at any point in the near future, those kind of solutions are a substitute for drilling oil and gas really shows you how ideologically dedicated this president is to raising the price of energy for Americans. His secretary of energy said publicly that he wanted to get to the European level, the European level is 8,9, 10 dollars a gallon. I would like to get to an American level, an American level ought to be no more than 250 a gallon and tomorrow I'm going to lay out step by step why what he said is inaccurate and is wrong. I'll also say he claimed yesterday that he was for the all of the above approach that Republicans favored. I hope John Boehner will move an all-of-the-above bill and ask the White House to endorse it. And my prediction is, the minute they move that bill, that Obama will oppose it. Because the fact is yesterday's speech was politically baloney. This president has no interest in lowering the price of gasoline and diesel, he has no interest in solving the problem of energy independence, and if you look at how shaky the Middle East is, it is very clear that for national security reasons we need an American energy program that is independent of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran and we need it on a very agressive basis because you can't tell which day we could have a very serious problem of getting energy out of the Middle East. ++question about production actually being up: Production on federal land is actually down. The only production that is up is North Dakota which is on property that is private land. And even in North Dakota, Obama's U.S. Attorney has filed a lawsuit against the oil industry. So for the president to claim credit for the production he opposes while not admitting that he stopped the production he could have opened up, it's down 40 percent on federal land, it's down 40 percent in the Gulf. Those are areas the Obama administration has reduced production. And that's why I'm going to take tomorrow's speech and walk through methodically how fundamentally false the Obama speech in Florida was. ++What do you think about states passing same sex marriage bills "I think at least they're doing it the right way, which is going through voters, giving them a chance to vote and not having a handful of judges arbitrarily impose their will. I don't agree with it, I would vote no if it were on a referendum where I was but at least they're doing it the right way."