Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Thursdays with Trey. We are so grateful for

you and your questions. We look forward to it and you keep us thinking throughout the

week. As you may have noticed, Trey isn't with us this week. And don't worry, Trey will

be back with more of your questions. Have a great week.

All right, we'll start with our first question. It's from Keras in South Carolina. She writes,

my question is, why are we still buying Putin's gas?

What a beautiful name. First of all, Keras.

From the great state of South Carolina. Well, Keras, I'm happy to tell you that as of

Monday, March the 7th, I think the United States has decided not to buy all the gas from Russia and

and then unseasing effort to be fair. I don't know that we were buying that much anyway, but

which begs the question why I've been by and at all, since they invaded Ukraine. But I'm almost

certain, that's the same Russia that at least tried to interfere with the 2016 election and has

either been complicit or looked the other way while there were cyber attacks against our country.

So I'm sure it's above my head. Keras, like most things in life are, but unless the US wants to be

energy independent, which I think we were trending in that direction or or

reliant upon a different energy sources not named ol and gas, the US is going to have to get

it from somewhere. And if it's not Russia, if we're not going to do it here and we'll get to that

in a second, but if we're not going to do it here, does that mean Venezuela? I mean, that's not a

real friendly country to the United States. Saudi Arabia, that's not like, they don't get like

all A's when it comes to human rights. Iran, I mean, I don't know, unless it until the US

is energy independent fully or only dependent upon our allies, or there is some alternative

ol and gas with which to power our lives and our economy, then I guess they're going to have to go

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