Rob
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Chevron's got private security down there, and they've got 3,000 people, and they've been able to get up to a quarter of a million barrels a day out of there.
So Chevron is politely saying, hey, with a little bit of support, we could do a lot more and we're already there.
Whereas Exxon is like twice our stuff was seized.
Tough to get my board to let us to go back in.
We just need assurances.
Look, you can see both are correct at the same time.
But that's capitalism.
Chevron found a way to take the risk.
and Exxon got robbed twice, and now they're a little bit more reticent.
But guess what?
The free market is there.
If Chevron wants to triple what they're doing with support, guess what?
It's going to happen that way.
But 47 has got them all sitting around the table and him saying, who would like to be the ones that come in here and be part of this?
So Trump's showing the leadership.
They were doing Navy practice.
With little baby tugboats.
They're out there doing this naval exercise, and you compare it to the might of the 7th Fleet, and you're like, okay, so you're saying you're aligned and you're doing this little naval exercise.
Okay, that's real.
Those are real ships, real bombs, real cruise missiles, real electronic class cruisers.