EXCERPT:
HOCHSTEIN: "I think what we’re focused on is keeping those prices down. We wanted to see some increases in the production before we announced the trip. We saw that significant increase in July and August. This is a smaller increase but an increase nonetheless. But I think we’re focused much more on the bottom line, and that is reducing the price of oil in the market, again, by $25 since the day that the president announced his trip. And today we see gasoline prices for American consumers for most of them below — well below $4. So we’re in the right — that’s what we’re really focused on. And I think that trajectory is what we want to see continue."