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Thanks for joining us for episode 269.

Nice.

You're funny. But you know what's not funny, Paige? What? I got

interviewed by Los Angeles Magazine. Not sure if it's going to make it to the Los Angeles Times.

That's who owns Los Angeles Magazine. And I spent an hour and a half explaining why the gasoline

retail fuel prices are so high in California. And a lot of that has to do with the political decisions

they made the last 10 or 15 years. When they printed the article, they took all the science that I

told them out. And they left me a couple of blurbs about how you should buy gasoline from the

station that has the most volume because the gas is freshest, right, which is legit, which is true.

But come on, don't ask me why gasoline prices

are so high in California. And I tell you why, explain that you're importing oil, that you've made

it hard for refineries to grow, and then strip all that stuff out. You're doing a disservice to

your readers. If they really want to know why gasoline prices are high, tell the truth.

But I mean, are you really surprised? Yeah, actually. So normally I wouldn't been, when they reached out to me, I figured this was a good ghost somewhere left politically. But the young woman that interviewed me, as I explained how the industry works, she kept saying, oh my God, oh my God, I had no idea. I had no idea. And at the end of the conversation, she literally told me that nobody in her entire company,

I remember, this is the Los Angeles Times, understood how the oil and gas industry worked. Duh. Well, so I was hoping that once I explained this in a non-political way, you know, based on facts and science, that they would use it as kind of an eye-opener for their readership, but I was wrong. So just a little disappointed in parts of our news media, unlike us, that rewrite the stories for their own political narratives. It's just wrong. It's wrong, but I'm not surprised. Anyway, let's go on to like, let's talk about this review we have. Okay. You want to read it? Yeah. Great information. Five stars from Powder River 307. Love your podcast. You all need to put your phones on silent, constant buzzing sound through the broadcast.

So first thing, Power Driver 307, thanks for the great five-store review. Don't take this the wrong way. That's on your end, dude, or dude, we're really strict and really focused on the quality of our audio. I know for fact there's no buzzing sounds and no

consistent buzzing sounds. So I suspect it's something on how you're listening to this. And if you're listening it through headphones, especially if they're wired headphones, that little buzzing sound is one of the signs that the wires insulation are starting to break loose in the headphones and they're not insulated from each other and it creates a hum. Not sure if that's your problem. Yeah, my stuff's on silent and I'm sitting on it so it wouldn't even like hit the table. Well, no, he said constant buzzing sound in the podcast, not your phone interrupt it. He's assuming that's our phone making the buzzing sound. And I promise you, our audio is pristine. There's no buzzing sound. Eminch should take that personally. Anyway. Anyway, appreciate the Ruth. Thank you.

All right, let's get into the Anyway. Anyway, appreciate the Ruth. Thank you.

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