Summers: The More Natural Gas We Produce, the 'More Secure We're Going to Be,' We Need to Expedite Pipeline Permits

During an interview aired on Thursday's broadcast of CNN's "Situation Room," Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers argued that we can't view energy through the lens of "managing with a fire drill every time we have some oil price problem," and we need to move as fast as we can on expediting "permitting pipelines or permitting more natural gas production or permitting more electricity transmission," moving "to implement as many parts of a shift to renewables as possible." And we have to recognize the more natural gas is produced, "the better we're going to be, the more secure we're going to be," and the better the climate will be.