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The panel was discussing why Qatar is signing long-term LNG deals with US companies. Blackmon points out that oil has found alternate routes out of the Middle East over the past months, but gas has not.
I'm a little concerned. I'm going to speak again. Anyway, go ahead, Timmy.
…Mark Carney, central banker running Canada. You've got, if Lagarde takes over the World Economic Forum, instead of having the head of BlackRock, you have another central banker there. And yeah, so I don't know. Central bankers being in these positions, I don't know if that's such a good thing.
I don't think it's a good thing at all. Now, here's the other thing about Qatar that I want to bring up: is so we've had this over the past eight months, these countries in the Middle East finding all these alternate routes were getting their oil out of the Middle East. Cutter remains hostage, though, to the Strait of Hormuz because that's the only way they can get their LNG out of the Middle East is to put it on a tanker and send it through the Strait of Hormuz. And why is that? Well, because there's no other way to transport LNG in a, you know, reliably in a massive way like that. The only alternative they would have would be to build a. $12, $15 billion liquefaction facility on either the coast of the Red Sea or the coast of the Mediterranean and a pipeline to that to send raw natural gas feed into that liquefaction facility, right? And getting the right to do that in another country is a tough deal and a very expensive proposition. And so this just, I think, illustrates the difference between the two commodities, doesn't it? I mean, what other alternatives would they have? I think it's pretty, you know, pretty stark just in terms of how much harder it is to get that natural gas out…
Yeah, that's a great point. As part of the joint statement between Canada and the EU, sort of to bring it back to that, it just, what you said about LNG infrastructure was just resonated. They're going to conduct a long-term LNG export feasibility study, Canada and the EU. It's like, why does a…
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is like the best, most suited port, right? And I'm not sure they're going to be able to negotiate that deal with Israel. Go ahead.