Rich Diaz
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So like, we're going to basically pursue these large natural gas projects and ship this stuff all over the world.
And tax it.
I ship my pants.
But then you can't use it domestically, like in your house.
It's just this really interesting double standard.
It's just so silly.
And anyway, just watching sort of people.
Anyways, there was a big protest at City Hall the other day.
People spray painting about fossil fuels.
Well, Keith, so the problem is as people don't, which is fair, I mean, maybe people have other things that are more important in their lives than understanding like our grid here in BC, which is to say like BC Hydro, for example, has been running a power deficit for the last three years where effectively they've been importing power largely from the United States, predominantly from states that actually derive the energy source from coal.
Yeah, so it's like stuff like that.
And so, you know, there's all these, the premier BC David Eby's, but like major calls for power.
saying, hey, we've got to ramp this up.
We're in a shortfall.
We can see the writing on the wall.
So again, just in BC, to give you guys some more examples here, they've recently spent a billion dollars, a billion dollars educating people on how to curb their electricity consumption.
Sorry, a billion with a B?
Yes, one billion.
They spent one billion basically just on like an education –
type program to explain to people how they can curb their electricity consumption number one number two they've already gone to the extreme lengths of actually curbing uh certain industries from from using their hydroelectric power so for example uh you're no longer allowed to have crypto miners in in british columbia so they're not allowed to basically tap into the grid uh so it's just like stuff like that and anyways long story short is if you're going to push