Cliff Taylor

Yeah, so there may be a bit of remorse in the White House about this and, you know, it appears to be the usual, you know, it appears to have gone through a cycle where his military people say, well, if we do this, then Iran will agree and then he does it and then it doesn't happen.

So the reports are that he kind of has resisted.

further military adventures for the moment.

But every expert you read has a different take on what's going to happen here and what's going to play out, which is why it's, as John said, so difficult from an economic point of view to actually make any kind of credible forecasts.

People kind of say the war will go on or the war will stop.

But the kind of messiness we're seeing at the moment could just drag on as well.

And the strait could be open one week and close the next.

And some boats might be getting through and some boats might not.

We could just be in kind of messiness now for months is a possibility as well.

We spent a long time drilling for oil off the Irish coast.

Oh, I know.

And nothing was ever found.

No commercial deposits have come up.

I mean, as John said, gas is another issue.

But oil, I don't know.

I would have doubts about it.

I think we're better putting our efforts into… Offshore wind?

Accelerating the renewables and particularly the offshore wind where we've fallen way behind really in terms of our plans or in terms of what other countries have done.

Mid-2030s maybe?

Yeah.