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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcasts listeners.

Welcome to this week's show.

My name's Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host.

So today we have Abbie Regendrin.

How you doing to Abby?

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Kirk. a bone to pick or take an extreme side, but I wanted to bring you on because I know you're one of the foremost experts in the area. So maybe you can tell the listeners a little bit about

your background to begin. I work at a firm called Energy Intelligence Research and Consulting

firm where I head up our research practice based on oil, downstream, North America, focused energy, which is kind of

across the board. I've also, you know, I've been here about five and a half years. I also work

part-time at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. So I kind of chip in on

various kind of policy and energy- related matters at Columbia as well.

Prior to my gigs, I spent over 10 years on Wall Street researching and investing and

trading across the commodity complex.

So oil, gas, LNG, pet cams, refining.

So you kind of bring a holistic view on what's going on, the energy space,

and certainly spend a whole lot of time on new energy and energy transition areas as well,

because that's, can't be escaped these days. Yeah, so what got you interested in energy? Like,

how did you get started in it? I actually started covering energy all the way at the other end of the value chain, covering the petrochemical space, which is kind of an interesting, you know, hodgepodge of different products that go into a whole host of different end uses and sectors.

I just kind of found it, you know, fascinating, you know, how, you know, closely tied to all different

walks of the economy and consumption that energy products were. Then I, you know, kind of slowly

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