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And they exported the most in the world, and now they don't have enough diesel fuel for their own country.

And so there's a diesel shortage worldwide, and we're perpetuating it here in California by shutting down our refineries that are making diesel fuels.

So yeah, diesel fuel's gonna be in short, short supply, and the Ukrainians are still attacking the Russian refineries, so, uh, w- if they're gonna come back, who knows? Uh, it's gonna be a tough, tough road ahead.

Mm-hmm.

Because it's just over-regulation.

And, you know, they're the bad guys.

They're manufacturers.

Where, where do we start on that? It, it, it's pretty serious, huh?

Uh, it is.

Uh, one thing, California has a lot of, uh, policies, regulations, over-regulations, and the one thing that California does not recognize [laughs] is that 99.5% of the eight billion people on this planet do not live in California.

[laughs] And so we're trying to clean up California, and, um, it's gonna be devastating.

We're the fourth largest economy in the world, and we've had a couple refineries shut down, and California is...

Most people don't know, California's an energy island.

We're separated from the rest of the country by the Sierra Mountains.

So I think I may have asked you this before in previous podcasts, but what do you think, 50 or 100 years out, do you think that, uh, we will have liquid fuels, uh, produced somehow by nuclear power?That type of thing.