The fastest three hours in radio, you're with Brian Kilmeade.

Let me give you an example. There have been some, including the American

Retroleum Institute, who have claimed that this is an issue of having

access or funds. The oil and gas industry has a lot of permits.

Onshore alone were the 9,000 unused approved permits to drill.

And I would note that only 10 percent of drilling is happening on federal

lands. The other 90 percent is on private lands, but I'm talking about the 10

percent in that case. So the argument that there are just no

opportunities to drill for oil is just not true.

Really? But what about the regulations you put in place?

And our permits, all it takes, I haven't seen Gen Socke in a hard hat in the oil

fields, but maybe I just have to get out more.

Kathleen Scama joins us now.

Kathleen is the president of the Western Energy Alliance.

The represents 200 member of companies engaged in oil aspects of the

environmentally responsible and exploration and production of oil and natural gas

in the West. Kathleen, I want you to, thanks so much for joining me.

I want you to take on Gen Socke's comments.

I imagine you hear that in your head, your head wants to explode.

Well, actually what she said is correct, but the spinning of it is what's the problem.

So we are indeed lucky that in the United States, only 10 percent of our oil and

natural gas production is federal, because if more were federal, then we wouldn't

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