joining me now is alaska governor sean parnell. it's great having you here. >> thanks, governor. >> mike: few people in the country have a better insight into american energy situations like you do because your state is one of the most prolific energy-producing states. i want to talk about the president wants to kill oil subsi decembesubsidies to the c. we've got a piece we want to show. i want you to react to it. >> we want to help with the technology and support to help. when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers. >> mike: he's talking to the people of brazil. he wants to be their best customer. why doesn't he want to be alaska's customer? >> you know, we're still trying to figure that out. i would love it if our federal government was qins convinced tt american energy can create american jobs. instead, what you just heard was the president responding a little bit ago to u.s. taxpayer dollars funding offshore work in brazil. we've got offshore and onshore work to be done. we've got billions of ba

for the record my name is sean parnell. i'm governor of the state of alaska. and you for allowing me the few moments to make the case for american energy production and why anwr is a good investment for our nation. one that we can no longer afford to ignore. i would first like to recognize german hastings. thank you for your efforts to remove unnecessary road blocks to the economic growth and for the time that you invested in coming to our state. alaska, we've set a goal to increase the throughput of the trans-alaska system to 1 million barrels a day from the current levels of about 550,000 barrels per day. i asked other governors to set increasing production goals as well. this will help grow the nation's economy, make us more energy secure, and more energy independent. reaching this goal of a million barrels per day through the caps will take work between the federal government and the state of alaska. the force is to create jobs, it's to grow our economy, and to boil down to one simple truth colin code more american oil and gas production means jobs, and jo

for the record, my name is sean parnell, governor of the state of alaska. thank you for allowing me a few moments to make the case for american energy production and why anwr is a good investment for a nation, when we could no longer afford to ignore. i would first like to recognize chairman hastings. thank you for efforts to remove unnecessary roadblocks to economic growth. thank you for the tiny investment coming to our state. in alaska, we set a goal to increase the throughput of the trans-alaska to $1 billion a day to current levels of 550,000 barrels a day. at best other governors to set increasing production goals as well. this will help grow our nation's economy, for energy safety or and more energy independent. reaching this goal of a million euros per day through taps will take work between the federal government and the state of alaska. the forces comes to create jobs and grow our economy and boil it down to one simple truth, more american oil and gas production means jobs and jobs translates into stable communities and a strong nation. beyond the