kobold at the time was a hugely important one. most of our minerals came from foreign countries. we have a wealth of those minerals in this country and need to develop them. it was president reagan had vetoed to wilderness bills. when he vetoed simply because it had too much mineral land locked up in it and would prevent the development of strategic and critical minerals. in addition because there was concern about minerals president reagan rejected a lot of the sea treaty. great grand -- great mineral resources in the hour, and a shelf. i understand that president obama has a strategic and critical minerals task force in the white house. we will see what happens. our issue today is not so much coble to. it is still critically important for green technology, but the issue today is with regard to the rare earth elements. and they're all in china along with our debt, are $16 trillion debt. that's where the rare earth this. we have rare earth elements in california, great deposit there. rick deposit in my own state of wyoming. her nose. finally, i want to mention that president then