Jack McClendon

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What I will tell you, though, is that we are resilient and everybody in the industry firmly believes in what they do.

I think that's a big part of it.

You're talking about extracting a substance from under the ground that literally powers everything in our world.

I think there is...

I read some I read some quotas in an article that, you know, without new oil and gas production, if we just were to basically shut off oil, all oil and gas development and production that, you know, 60 percent of the world would starve in six months.

And so, you know, I think that there is there is obviously a little bit of, you know, you got to have a high pain tolerance.

But I think the other thing, too, is that everybody in this industry really believes in what they do.

And, you know, we we create and we produce a product that powers the modern world.

And so I think there's a tremendous amount of pride in that as well, too.

And I don't think you'll talk to anybody in the industry that does not feel just an enormous sense of pride in what we do.

And, you know, I think, you know, someone said this to me once and I firmly believe in it.

And they said, you know, Jack, one of the things your dad did that I firmly believe in is

is without the shale revolution, there would have been a lot more wars.

And I really do believe in that because I think that this resource abundance that we've kind of largely taken for granted over the last 10 years has prevented a lot of conflict, believe it or not, because America is largely, we're not wholly energy self-sufficient, right?

There are different

blends of crude.

We largely produce one type of oil, which is called light sweet.

You don't just produce oil and put it in your car, right?

It's got to go to refinery.