>> well, in the past, for example the burr burr administration really doctor george wbush made a very small commitment to move forward with meth tape hydrate perimentation and that continues to be the case. the reason as ste pointed out the price of natural gas in the u.s. let's face it north dakota bakken shale oil drillers are flaring $100 million of natural gas a month. a third that they produce with their oil they are extracting. >> yeah. >> that flaring you can see from outer space and emitting green house gases equivalent to one million cars. so the idea that you can hve a preventative intervention and extract hydrates basically, you need to look at geologic history a little bit. ere's been some huge releases of methane, pretty much all at once when subsea landslide through natural processes became die stablized or mud volcanoes as they're called and release ad huge amount of methane into the atmosphere. we are not in a situation where we induce somhing like t to happen. melissa: absolutely. gentlemen, we've got to leave it there. thanks to both of you. we appreciate your time.