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Well, how did a bill like that educate me, please, a little in a famously conservative administration, arguably the worst president of all time at the time?

How did a comprehensive energy bill get passed under that administration?

I think we were agreeing.

I think we were talking about 100 years ago, conservatives were extremely pro-conservation.

That's like the most coherent quote I've ever heard from him.

He had a lot of sound bites.

They just weren't usually quite so actionable.

I was going to ask because we invaded Afghanistan soon after 9-11.

I was curious how that affected the oil industry because didn't that allow them to establish a new pipeline?

Did that affect these same companies that were participating in this or sorry, being regulated by this oil bill?

Or how did that affect the energy industry at the time?

Right.

And as horrible and toxic as he was, the, the spirit of bipartisanship existed at least to some extent.

And you're saying that right now, and I tend to agree that,

I think things were pretty bad already, but things have been polarized to a degree where it's operating far more out of spite.

Like you said, I have to undo what the previous administration did because they did it, which is very different from the way that I would say that it's, it's just one man.

Yeah.

And not that I want more military action, but, you know, and it shouldn't be in Iran in the first place.

But there are instances in which an autocrat overthrows a people's republic and we try to prevent that.

There's also instances where we help the autocrat.