Okay, so let's take a brief look at what have been some of the implications of this technology. You know, this was something that I think Mitchell Energy started playing around with in the late 80s, early 90s, and really everybody kind of feels like, we figured it out by 2000 or shortly thereafter, maybe, maybe mid-2000s. Well, look at what has happened in all of these gas related slides. So, here we have, in the top left corner we have US energy production and consumption. This is trillion cubic feet of natural gas. [COUGH] So we used to have total consumption in excess, of production, okay? What we see by, basically, we see a downtrend in these net imports beginning in the mid-2000s. And we're now to the point that we have, you know, we're almost self-sufficient when it comes to natural gas. And we currently project something like the latter part of this decade to actually be fully self-sufficient. And certainly, thereafter to actually be a net exporter of natural gas. The US will be a net exporter of a hydrocarbon, which is pretty remarkable. Something I wouldn't have expected in my life. Now, let's take a look at this slide on the bottom here. This is this is sort of US natural gas imports and exports, but by location. So, again, down here you can see that up until you know, by mid to late-2000s we were actually producing not only significant amounts from Canada but we actually, you see this little sliver down here of LNG. We were producing liquified net, or we were importing liquified natural gas. We're importing from Canada and very limited exports of, to Mexico and Canada. Some of the adjacent states where transportation issues made it, you know, as we talked about, sometimes it makes sense to, even if you're a net importer to actually export some gas. By now, we actually are importing very little LNG. Our imports from Canada have dropped. Our exports to Canada have increased and we see growing exports to Mexico. And then we can take a look at electricity generation from gas and coal and this is something I'd mentioned a couple of times. This has been a huge natural gas had a huge impact on the coal sector. So, what we see up until 2000, see now coal, really the dominant fuel for producing electricity. But since mid-2000, rapid growth in use of natural gas, you know, all of a sudden we have these new plays that are being developed around the US and people start looking for ways because it's stranded, it's cheap. We start looking for ways to make use of it. So, massive growth in utilization of natural gas, in particular, for electrical generation, actually is expected, electrical generation by gas is expected to be equivalent to that of coal by 2035. So, another, what is that, another 20 years or so? And then lastly it's a little subtle in this chart, but in the bottom right we see carbon dioxide emissions associated with these various fuel types. And we see, you know, emissions associated with coal since 05 dropping, you know, reasonably significantly. Down to here from, you know, a value like this. Natural gas is just a lot cleaner fuel, even though it is a nonrenewable, it is a lot cleaner burning than coal. So, not a tremendous expansion in the emissions associated with natural gas and certainly much less than what we've gained in ground on from reduction and utilization of coal. [COUGH] So with the increased cost of, of regulation and technologies to keep coal competitive. Natural gas is just making it very hard on coal to remain a dominant producer of electricity in the US. [BLANK_AUDIO]
