Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Thursday, 7th of September and we're going to be discussing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after a question from one of our wonderful

lists. Joining the studio is Motley full Canada premium analyst Taylor

Markman. Taylor thank you very much for joining me today. Absolutely. Are you

refreshed? Yeah. From the long my lack of labor over the weekend.

It was wonderful.

So as I said today we're going to be talking about the SPR, but really the reason that we're talking about that is

because of the sheer extent of the damage from Hurricane Harvey and we're going to be

kind of covering the SPR and its role during these emergency situations.

So Harvey, thankfully it's now passed, although we were just talking about this, and there's another

three hurricanes apparently out there getting ready. So Harvey dumped about 50 inches of rain on

parts of Texas and Louisiana. Sadly it took the lives of 42 people and left 40,000 homes damaged.

So some serious implications of this.

It's been truly terrible for Texas.

Just awful images in the media depicting terrible devastation and as so often happens in these times of crisis

some really wonderful stories of some really brave people.

Yes.

I saw a great one about a people forming like a human line to save a woman who was in labor

from the flood water which is just incredible.

That's a story to tell your kids in a few years.

It's true, yeah, babies won't wait, that's the thing.

Tech and residents and business owners are obviously left to survey the thing. Tech and residents and business owners

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