Jack McClendon

important factor than whether or not there's 50,000 acres in Wyoming that are now open for drilling that weren't open for drilling.

Well, I don't belong to any country clubs in Fort Worth.

But yeah, I'm going to try to use my words carefully here.

Of course, I understand.

There's no surprise that most of the oil production in this country is done in Republican states, right?

I mean, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana.

I mean, New Mexico, I guess, is a democratically run state.

The parts of New Mexico where the oil is produced are very, very conservative.

And so, yeah, you know, I would tell you the politics are tricky because obviously oil country overwhelmingly supports Trump.

But I also think, you know, behind closed doors, there's a lot of frustration in the industry of, you know, Trump, you know, actively kind of trying to jawbone oil prices down.

You know, I think that.

There are a lot of people that wish that, you know, as I said, I hate to kind of bring Landman back up, that we could just kind of find some happy price equilibrium, right?

Whether it's, you know, 70 or 75, you know, not 55 or 50, which I think was kind of what they said as their target price, but, you know, not 90 or 95, which is a price that, you know, hurts demand.

And so, yeah, I mean, the politics are, you know, the overwhelming majority of the oil industry is Republican and conservative, right?

But yeah, I think a lot of people are very frustrated by some of the administration's rhetoric and policies over the last year.

I could see it.

No interest in politics right now, as anybody would tell you.

Yeah, I've got young kids and working on growing a business.

Yeah, I get it.

Politics is increasingly a pretty nasty game, especially in a country as polarized as ours.