Jack McClendon

Right.

And those guys, those guys have massive, massive balance sheet integrated operations.

And, yeah, I mean, you just, you know, it's just a little bit kind of different.

There's still a cowboy element to it for sure.

But, yeah, I mean, I think in order to attract capital, the industry has had to show discipline.

And I think we've done a pretty good job of doing that over the last two years.

I mean, the, you know, kind of the days of.

a million barrel a day growth year over year are largely gone.

And some of that is due to geologic constraints.

Although, you know, I will reiterate kind of never, never to underestimate the ingenuity of the American oil man.

But I think another part of that is obviously due to capital.

And, you know, you've had two to three crashes really in the last 10 years.

And so, you know, investors, investors really are kind of holding everybody's feet to the fire on that.

And then I'll say is kind of as it pertains to my business, you know, as I said, there are a lot more of my businesses than there are of large shale companies.

I mean, this is the business of operating older oil and gas assets.

Right.

And like any business, when things are older, they break more.

And so, yeah, no, it's difficult and it's challenging.

Right.

Because you have a lot of volatility here.