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you had a tweet

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where you were in front of the

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gas station pumps, and you

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'promises made, promises kept.'

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Obviously, prices have gone up

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significantly since then.

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Do you regret that tweet

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or is it just outside of

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your ability to control?

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You know, it's

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outside of our control

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and, at that time

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boy, what was it like

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$2.35 or something like that?

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So gas prices had gone down.

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They went up as a result

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of the instability

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in the Middle East and Iran

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and

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with the Revolutionary Guard

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plinking a ship

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every now and then

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in the Straits of Hormuz

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to keep gas prices up.

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And, so

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it's really important that

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we have more energy

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that is being produced.

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That's the thing that I've

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I've been focused on

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both state and federally

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is we have to be

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energy independent

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here in America.

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So what can a governor do?

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A governor can deal with

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the energy issue

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in regards to our utilities.

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We've seen over $2 billion

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of increases in utility rates

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here over the last eight years.

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The Public Service Commission

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here in Wisconsin

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has just acted as a rubber stamp

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for the utility rate increases.

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I will not do that.

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We can help make life more

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affordable for Wisconsinites

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by not raising

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those utility rates and

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getting back to keeping

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our baseload sources of power.

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I think it's time to embrace

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the new nuclear technologies.