produce 2.7. if the amnesty holds and there's peace and quiet in nigeria, i don't know, maybe we need much more than 12 months to restore the facilities. >> do you have an estimate of what it could go to next year if you are allowed to go that tie? >> if we are allowed to go to -- let's say for sake of argument, we could go up to 500 easily. i'm not saying that we are going to do that. but we could if we have to. by the end of next year. >> iran is making the argument that it is saving nuclear energy for energy purposes. given nigeria's, you know, situation is there any consideration for nigeria to take it measures and resources to produce nuclear energy? >> we have a nuclear energy commission in place and if they hope that we will at the appropriate time go nuclear energy wise. we will diversify as much as possible as an energy source. oil and gas will call because we have wind, solar, and of course nuclear is not taken out. by the way, talking about nuclear, we have discovered uranium in nigeria. so we are in a good position to eventually go nuclear generation if we wanted to. but in the

infrastructure. but with the recent fortune and occurrence of the amnesty we are hoping that we will be able to repair and put back some of the infrastructure was has been damaged by the insurgency. but this will take a little bit of time. but be that as it may, we are hoping that it will resume the growth of our oil and gas industry, to the greater benefit of our country. oil is very important aspect of our national economy. we are very dependent on oil for export earnings, with a 90% foreign-exchange comes from oil. substantial part of government revenue in that percentage more than 80%, 90% comes from oil. what is very important for our country. and we are trying various programs and devices to diversify the national economy so we will eventually be less dependent on oil and gas ultimately. within the oil, to diversify variously through the downstream and midstream activities of finding and things like special chemical are very much involved with the development of our gas associate to, for instance, apply in the countries to the west african bypass land. we are having major energ

occurrence of the amnesty we are hoping that we will be able to repair and put back some of the infrastructure that has been damaged in the insurgency. but this would take time and be that as it may, we are hoping that we should be able to resume growth of our oil and gas industry to the greater benefit of people. oil is for us very important aspect of the national economy. we are heavily dependent of our export earnings, 90% of the foreign exchange comes from oil. substantial part of the government revenue, very high percentage more than 80, 90% comes from oil. it is extremely important for the country. we are trying through various programs and devices to diversify the basic national economies of that we will eventually be less dependent on oil and gas. within the oil and gas industry we are diversifying variously through downstream and midstream activities of finding things like chemical and we are very much involved in as i said earlier the development of gas resources to apply a number of countries through the west african gas pipeline. we have major energy project already

occurrence of the amnesty, we are hoping that we will be able to repair and put back some of the infrastructure which has been damaged during the insurgency. but this will take a little bit of time, but be that as it may, we are hoping that we should be able to resume both our oil and gas industry with the gaiter benefit of our people. oil for us is very important aspect of our national economy. we are dependent on oil for exports. 90% foreign exchange comes from oil. substantial part of the government revenue, very high percentage, more than 80%, 90% comes from oil. so oil is extremely important for our country. and we are trying through various programs and devices to diversify the bases of our national economy so we will eventually be less dependent on oil and gas ultimately. we are diversifying various ways toe on downstream extreme activities of refining and petro chemical and very much involved in the development of our gas resources through the supply through the west african gas pipeline. we have a major energy project already in production with two new l.n.g.'s and we ha

faced the expiration on saturday of an amnesty protecting him and thousands of other politicians from a host of corruption and criminal charges. back to the bones, more rain, in west haven, connecticut, on our line for democrats. how is your shopping going so far? caller: the economy has affected shopping for the past four years. i start christmas shopping in june. host: in june? caller: when i see some but -- something for somebody and i have the money, i put the things away. i have an 18-year-old son who has a birthday the week before christmas. i try to get him some extra things and i give him cash per it i cannot by everybody that things i would normally want to buy. i keep a limit to $25 for everybody. that is why i start in june. host: are you done with your shopping? caller: i have maybe four or five things left to buy. host: are you better able to manage your shopping because you start so far ahead? caller: absolutely, people would not get as much if i did not do this. host: you don't feel like you're missing out on any of the sales that are coming up over the next couple of wee

with that, the candidate that did drop out cited human rights abuses which were noted in the amnesty international report as well as human rights watch. so under that climate which is still ongoing in honduras right now, you will support the outcome of the elections under that climate? >> we cannot say until november 29 how this will come out, so we cannot say we're going to support something -- support an outcome which has not happened yet. however we will say that while we had some concerns about a number of decrees restricting civil liberties and some restrictions on the median in place, they have since then been rescinded. and we particularly welcome the news that opposition television channel 36 is now able to broadcast free of interference. so we did have concerns, but many of those concerns have been already addressed. dollars this is following up on this. >> and i wanted to say one last thing on this. >> go ahead. >> the oas and the union of south american nations has pulled out all their observers and condemned these elections because of a lot -- a lot of the things i mentio