He is passionate about filling up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But guess what? There's not a tremendous political coalition that's excited about that. So the President and myself and others We lobbied hard in the bill last summer to get as much money as possible to fill up the petroleum reserve. We got some money. We can fix the existing infrastructure on the petroleum reserve that was damaged during the rapid drawdowns in 22. That is a terrible story. (42:48–42:56)
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