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Because I think New England probably is one of the worst areas in terms of electricity costs.
I don't know if you can comment on that, Erica.
Yeah, I mean, I do think that it's hopefully going to turn a corner with nuclear.
I think we are making a lot of strides, but I do think it's a longer term solution, no matter how you cut it.
Because, you know, I think we made it so hard to build a nuclear plant that it was basically impossible and it was just so costly and it would take 30 years, literally 30 years to build a nuclear plant.
And I think we're definitely getting that down.
But I think, what does that mean?
Does that mean five years, 10 years, 15 years?
It's not going to be next year that all of a sudden we're going to have a bunch of nuclear plants.
So I think in the meantime, we need to look at things like natural gas and other things that are a lot easier to roll out.
maybe even coal, which is what Trump's trying to do is to keep the coal plants going.
But it sounds like that has its own issues in terms of keeping it going.
And natural gas is a lot cleaner and a lot cheaper than these renewables for sure.
And I think it is probably the best solution in the short term is to ramp up on the natural gas.
And that probably also ties into just the increased drilling and drill, baby, drill and all the rest because
I think Trump has made a lot of strides in terms of that, getting people to produce more oil, more natural gas, but we need to use it.
We can't just let it pile up.
We need to actually put it to work.
So to me, that's probably the best short-term solution.
I don't know.