really underestimate oil and gas geopolitical influence. like, for example, magic wand if you can imagine the climate activists getting everything they want. america and every other big economy on earth says, you know what? we re turning off oil and gas. we re going to renewables. this industry is going to shrink magnificently. they re going to lose all their market share, lose a lot of the their power, i think we would see the boundaries of countries change. the oil and gas industry is propping up terrible governments all over the world. it is because the way they operate, which is convenient for them, is nontransparent, often brings out the worst in democracy and is counterdemocratic because it works for them. if u.s. regulations on oil majors that either operate here or are headquartered here force them to be corporate citizens, they would be bribing fewer despots, propping up fewer