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Rich Diaz

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The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

Find the oil, then get it up and running.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

And then once that giant machine, because that's really what these oil refineries are, start sort of moving, there's an incredible amount of inertia.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

And it's extremely A, expensive.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

And I would argue, as I understand, it's really not good for the actual...

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

asset itself to turn it off either.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

Right.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

So these assets, so these, these machines effectively, that's what a refinery is, are designed to work at certain temperatures with certain outflows to meet certain demand.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

And in order, and to, when you ramp things down, there's also a cost to that.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

And so it was like, it's all, there's all kinds of frictions that we never ever think about because we live in a world that we mostly take for granted.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

And I think that what you're describing, Keith, is exactly that.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

So if and when they do, because they cannot get any out, they cannot remove the oil from their current, let's say, short-term inventory, if they do decide to turn it off, that itself will take a lot of time.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

It'll be extremely expensive.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

There might be some damage.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

And then to ramp it up again will then take another chunk of time and it'll be expensive and et cetera.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

You can already see it.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

The export data came out a couple of days ago for March 2020.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

And our goods trade balance is now back into positive territory on the back of higher mineral and mining exports and, of course, energy.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

But genuinely, like, so it, we saw, you know, we saw it affect, we will see it in our Q1 GDP numbers.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

I'm certain of it.

The Loonie Hour
Energy Superpower? Canada Is Blowing It

It was like, it was a humongous, we can maybe share that chart.