. >> good morning, question or comment here for evan halper. >> good morning, thank you for taking my call. i understand that the united states is producing $20 million up he barrels of oil per day. we are producing $18 million while per day. with that surplus -- from anywhere around the country or around the world. saudi arabia, argentina, and we opening up more drilling. my question for you is, what is an acceptable profit level for our oil companies to make? in order to make up this extra difference of 2 million barrels a day that we need in order to meet our demands right now. what is unacceptable profit level for our oil companies? >> i guess that is sort of a tough question to answer. we did not set limits on what profits the or companies can make. it currently is a lot of people are paying for these high prices for gas, oil companies are gonna continue to make these high profits there's not much the government can do about it. other countries, they have naturalized their energy companies. that is one way to control what profits the oil companies make. it obviously brings with i

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