“The price mechanism acts as the signaling mechanism between producers and consumers. Consumers go, oh, it's higher. I'll probably spend less of it. Producers will go, holy crap, my margins look a lot better. Maybe I will produce more of it. High prices are the cure for high prices in a free market because people see these higher prices and they act on it either by curbing their demand or by increasing production.”

yeah, but supply can radically change because Donald Trump has a brain fart and decides to like whatever. And then, and so prices go up. Now, it feels crap and it is crap, but it's not a policy setting per se. It's just it is the market saying there is a scarcity here. And in regards, whether it's prawns at the fish market or whether it's oil on the international seaborne trade, you know, it's just like prices go up to reflect the reality of what is happening. What is the reality? There's less oil. Now, well, how do we divide it all up? And how do we think? We don't have to. That is the beautiful thing of the price mechanism. The price mechanism acts as the signaling mechanism between producers and consumers. Consumers go, oh, it's higher. I'll probably spend less of it. Sorry, consume, yeah, consumers will say that. Producers will go, holy crap, my margins look a lot better. Maybe I will produce more of it. High prices are the cure for high prices in a free market because people see these higher prices and they act on it either by curbing their demand or by increasing production. And thereby, particularly in something like oil, which is just in a complete, you know, just fact. Don't, don't…