policies do we have what are taxes what's monetary policy how much money are we dumping in what's critic roath that's been a useful place to go because because it was very predictive for all this time we're saying to really understand how this shakes now you have to wander over here to energy also the environment for other resources but energy is a great place to just go and look this is the critical bit it's not really how much oil comes out of the ground it's how much gets exported i mean at least if you're an importing nation in the united states still is we import seven million out of fifteen million barrels that we consume so where do those seven million come from well some from canada some from mexico the rest from other places if you look at how much is exported in the world right now that number's around forty million barrels a day that's it so who gets access to those forty million well that's the question that's getting resolved right now and here's the interesting part aaron the exporting countries are finding two things happening one their production is typically declining across t