You're listening to Comedy Central.

I think back for a moment, to spring of 2020,

much of the world had ground to a halt,

which meant that people weren't driving.

They weren't visiting friends, or going into the office,

or hanging out of the passenger's side of their best friend's ride,

trying to holler at me.

If you left your home at all, it was probably to take a sad walk around the block.

I mean, at least until you heard someone cough down the street,

and then you ran your ass back inside.

Now, because of all of that,

that meant that America's oil industry,

which had been producing more than any country in the world,

basically shut down.

And even though society has ramped back up again,

the oil industry hasn't.

Early in the pandemic,

demand for gasoline dropped dramatically,

as workers were told to stay home.

That immediately walloped the oil and gas industry,

like nothing ever in its history has ever hit them before.

At one point early on in the coronavirus crisis,

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