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- speaker-0: We've imported it from California because unfortunately we get our fuel from guess who? California. So we need to somehow change that whole flow of things and and try to get it from other places. speaker-1: That's exactly right. So the way that the gas prices work for Nevada is we're in a region where basically all the refineries that we rely on are in California, and we have to have literally an act of Congress to change the region that we're in. There's some opportunities for us to get our gas from from Utah, from Colorado, from New Mexico, but we've got to have an act of Congress to do it. So I know Governor Lombardo has been really helpful in sort of fighting that and making sure that California or encouraging California to reopen some of the refineries. But when you've got your source of gas closing the refineries and you've got all these environmental regulations that increase the cost of gas anyway. And so we're really beholden to this, you know, increasingly socialist state that increases the cost on everything we do.