tripp and his partner chuck are facing a production shutdown. >> obviously, i spoke to randy last night. he's freaking out that we are basically done with all the commercial oil. oil is derived from raw plant material. the extraction process, the state of colorado through which various regulation authorities precluded us from the ongoing activity because they really wanted to understand what our facility consisted of, what were the appropriate permits. i mean, at one time it was suggested we were going to have to have blast-proof windows. i walked through today. it does not appear we're anywhere close to getting the co2 rooms up. where are we? >> we have a couple issues there. most of it is getting this construction freaking finished so that we can get the rooms approved so we can get the machine approved. >> every day that, you know, we're not in production, it's costing my company, our companies tens of thousands of dollars. it is an oil crisis. >> we're going to be out of production next week. so i met with the production