And that is that we went in with zero investment. And now, if you fast forward to where we are today, we actually cargo has a very robust animal feed business. We import u. S. Products into the vietnamese market. And, over that course of time weve also through our investments and through working in those communities, weve actually built our nearly our 70th school on the ground in vietnam. And so what we can say is that theres not only the power of trade, but theres the power of u. S. ÷uf of businesses to engage in whats known as commercial day diplomacy. so, in the case of cuba, cuba is alkx i ratjt when we normalize relations, we would have to ensure that we would gain the same access in cuba that the other wto members have. We would also have the pntr as part of that, as well. I would say two things about vietnam on the hill. That, to make it different from cuba, one is there was not an active proembargo vietnamese lobby, unlike cuba. fb secondly, the senators brought in their desir
Hypothesized a legacy project it. But i think were getting pushed off into side panels about lifting the embargo on capitol hill right now. Help me. Im an optimist. And i believe optimism keeps us going on the right path. Why wont a bill come out of committee. Leave it to the room to w judge whether a bill is going to come out of a republican controlled senate. Let me follow up on that. I mean my. Yq reading of the tea leaves is, as your conclusion, that congress is two views, some strongly in favor of lifting some strongly opposed toq2n the president , the steps hes already taken. And, if you had to bet, i think you would bet where youve placed your money, which is unlikely that there will be legislative action on this to either roll back what the president is doing or to advance policy further. My question to you is, in your initial remarks, you suggested that as a legal matter, the president has full, legal discretion toc to take very expansive steps. My question is do you believe t
Opportunities to try to, you know, position this certain ways as to who its for and so forth. But if you ask the American People, by a margin of 21 consistently over years, theyve said they want it. And last i checked, thats who we work for. And as far as a turning point, im listening to some of these arguments, and theyve got to be music to opecs ears. Some of these arguments are going to guarantee that we continue to import oil from the middle east. And im pretty sure thats not what americans want. And any other alternative type of energy that any member of this committee or anyone else wants to bring up, go do it. This legislation doesnt stop one of those ideas. Go do it. But the reality is, if you understand economics, economics come into play. And opec and other countries are going to continue to manage this oil price so that things work for them, not us. So i believe we need to compete when it comes to oil and gas and were doing it. And thats why prices are down at the pump. And