holes checked so that you can go in and develop it. if american energy producers could be producing energy, they would be producing it. and plus, this administration has created an environment where investors are scared to invest many fossil fuels because they know there's an all-out aact on immaterial. this is not only hurting investment on public lands, but also on private lands are where you don't have near arely the regulatory loopholes. investor s are back off because they can't make a long-term investment knowing this administration has open wily declared war on u.s. domestic energy. eric: well, also vladimir putin experts are saying that the russians had a strategy over in europe, get this, they supported climate activists and others to get off of nuclear, to edge fracking, and that was -- to end fracking, and and that was part of putin's strategy in order to sell europe more gas and oil. let me read you what the