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“IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY PEACE AND PROSPERITY… ” Dec 18, 2010

(then, I’m sorry to say,”PREPARE FOR WAR”)

The Human race is perplexing.
On the one hand, we little two-legged wonders of Creational Happenstance are capable of much that is heart warming and inspiring. People can be uncommonly kind, brave, gentle, touching, wise, compassionate and loving.
On the other hand, Homo Sapiens (from the Latin, meaning “wise”, “knowing”) might be one day written off by a Space Alien as a truly primitive species.
Nasty, brutish, jealous, envious, untrustworthy, proud, and vicious.

(It will depend where they land in their space ship, I guess. Hopefully they won’t decide to grace our planet with an arrival in, say, downtown Detroit on a Saturday Night, and get their warm InterGalactic greetings speech interrupted by “Gimme your f@#k’n MONEY, MOTHERF$#@!!ER!”, and a Galactic First: the very first recorded mugging of E.T.)

For my two cents’ worth (if you’re kind) fundamentally, “power corrupts”.
That’s probably why I describe myself as a non-violent Anarchist. It seems that Man has this uncanny ability to start out with good intentions, rise above his old station, and spontaneously transform himself into an incipient tyrant. Actions that our humble fellow, at his original stage in Life, would instantly repudiate and abhor, take on a different light entirely once POWER has rung on his door bell. That is why so many politicians behave as if the Rules and Laws of this Great Country simply do not apply to THEM. Dammit, they are SPECIAL. They even have SPECIAL Retirement benefits, a SPECIAL Health care Plan, and SPECIAL privileges.
(But don’t worry, they are THERE TO SERVE YOU.)

Will the Tea Party be any different? Now they too have arrived at the halls of power, wealth and lobby-ism ad infinitum? I wonder. Do you notice there are NO spending cuts? Yep, the politicos are still spending on their pork barrel priorities, playing the boo-hoo compassion card, and ignoring hard, cold Reality. It’s called “postponing the Day of the Reckoning”, or “kicking the can down the street”.
Do you think we Oil and Gas Workers can all go back to sleep? Go back to working, hunting, fishing, sleeping, drinking beer, chasing girls, riding motorbikes, and trusting politicians? Is that what you think? Or do you suspect that, fundamentally, most of them don’t give a rat’s ass about you and me, UNLESS THEY PERCEIVE IT TO AFFECT THEIR VOTES????
(Aaaahhh…. The Achilles tendon of the slimey politico creeps who fleece us blind, whilst telling us how much they care…)
They worry about their voter base.

Hmmm…. So how do we rattle their cages? That is the question.

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Where the Oil and Gas Worker is concerned, I have spoken with hundreds in the last weeks and months. And I have an inbox full of quiet anger. I’m glad it’s not directed at me. (Well, a few are, but that’s okay. My dog will have ’em.)
Nobody trusts Government anymore. At least, nobody with a job and a family to support. Nobody trusts a word politicians say. The history of startling about face U-turns, when faced with political expediency, makes us well aware that our jobs and livelihoods are on the chopping block.
Nobody trusts the new MMS, the paper pushing agency now know as BOEMRE. As somebody said, this BOEMRE may be a BOEMRE by name and a Bummer by Nature.
All the signs are that the pace of permit issue is going to be “super slo-mo”. Molassis on a cold tile floor. A bicycle minus the wheels. A game of football with a lead ball. A whole new concept of meditating on the meaning of Eternal Life: “waiting for BOEMRE”.
Bureaucrats afraid to Death of the bureaucrat above him who is watching. And who in turn, is being watched by the dogsbody above HIM. There may be lip service to “The Taxpayer” and lip service and platitudes to “The Industry”, but does anybody seriously doubt this is headed for lethargy, delays, confusion, and MASS lay-offs?
But like all Government Agencies, there is a hiring boom underway (some great salaries, check it out) and the job comes with great perks. You can demand an engineer draw up everything. In triplicate. Even simple, routine, hum drum issues. Then you can pull a long face, look officious, “file it”, and watch grown men with thirty plus years in the Oil and gas Fields turn blue in the face and cry.
That kind of power represents Nirvana to anybody with a fragile ego, or who secretly believes that Oil and Gas need to be replaced with Alternative (CLEAN) Energy anyway. I wonder how many crypto Greenpeace/Treehugger/Rainbow Foundation activists will flock to that opportunity. Especially as the word is out that people with an Oil and Gas background are NOT being welcomed. The czars are apparently worried that they would have “prior allegiances”, and would not be objective. Brace yourself for a slew of fresh, wide-eyed college graduates with fancy degrees, no practical Oil and Gas experience, who WILL be in charge. Of YOUR job.
Needless to say, I want to be wrong. I want to believe in a dynamic, sincere, enthusiastic, realistic, HIGHLY EFFICIENT agency. That has the absolute interests of the Oil and Gas Workers and their dependents firmly in its sights. Trouble is…
I don’t.
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If you are still reading, then you don’t either. So, what can we do?
Organize.
What and How?
Well, it will take many, many, committed people.
It has been suggested that we could set up some sort of “Brotherhood of Oil and Gas Workers”.
Nicknamed; “The Oily Fingers”.
Let the Employer and Contractor Oilmen associations that already exist do their thing in their ongoing dealings with Government: which is basically to appeal to the reason and the common sense of the politicians.
(Good luck with that)
Let us, the Oily Fingers, the little guys, quietly get ourselves organized. We don’t mean “Trade Union”. Or socialism. We mean “just us”.
1) The workers directly in the Oil patch. Oil and Gas men.
(you know who you are) (that’s a BUNCH) (tens of thousands) (think: screw with the voter base)
2) The service workers who in turn support the oil patch workers.
(aaaah…. Truck drivers, welders, painters, fabricators, catering workers, gas filling stations, convenience shops along Gulf transit routes, fast food restaurants, parts suppliers, sub contractors, sub-sub contractors, sub-sub-sub contractors, and every Tom, Dick and Harry who knows perfectly well that if the crazy politicians and the environmental whackos and the Green la-la-lah nincompoops have their dogmatic way, that we’ll ALL JOLLY WELL STARVE….) (hundreds of thousands) (voter base, voter base, voter base)

If… that whole merry lot get REALLY TICKED OFF… well, watch out, you comrades up there in Washington. You hyenas who tax, and spend, and lie, and deceive, and cheat, and illustrate at every twist and turn that you don’t give a tuppeny damn about the will of the American People.

Let’s look at an Outline of broad principles.

Suggestions that have been made include the following:
1) The Brotherhood would make no distinction between Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, White, Black, Hispanic, Yellow, Brown, Legal Immigrant, Il-legal Immigrant, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Islamic, etc, etc.
We’re not interested. There are plenty of other venues all that can be argued and fought over. If you are working in the Oil and Gas Patch, or in one of the many supporting industries, then WE ARE BROTHERS. Period. There may be times we will depend on you. Or you on us.
2) The Brotherhood identifies their common reliance on employment provided by the Oil and Gas industry Employers. What affects those employers, affects us. If they hurt, we hurt.
3) The Brotherhood could draft up a constitution outlining its core beliefs.
A Constitution Committee of volunteers could maybe draw up a draft.
4) The Brotherhood could encourage the setting up of Local Chapters in different towns and States.
A Local Chapter Formation Committee of volunteers could maybe encourage that.
5) The Brotherhood could seek to find ways to respectfully remember those who have died in the Deepwater Tragedy, and in other accidents in the Gulf of Mexico. How are the families doing? Is it right that they are just forgotten, but the oiled Pelicans are constantly paraded before us? A Remembrance and Support Committee could maybe look at that.
(if you knew a family of a deceased Oil Worker was struggling, would you donate $10? I bet you would – in a heart beat.)
6) The Brotherhood could set up a Politician Watch Committee. This committee could blatantly gather intelligence and news reports on (initially) all Gulf State Politicians.
Now that starts to become personal. You bet.

WHO are they? (Let’s get your NAME, Mister Politician, your picture, up on the Oily Finger web site.)
WHERE do they have their constituency?
WHERE is their VOTER BASE? (har-har)
What is their voting record?

(How do you, Mister elected Politico career Meister, feel about Oil and Gas? Have you supported the Oil and Gas Worker? Have you spoken out against the systematic persecution of the Oil and Gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico? Have you spoken out against the drilling ban? Have you lodged vehement protests against the Permit Moratorium? If not, why not?)
7) The Brotherhood could set up an Enemy Politician Harassment Committee.

How do we do that? Easy. Remember most politicians are incompetent hypocrites and cowards. They don’t even read the bills they vote on. If Comrade Pelosi says “vote on it!” then they vote on it. (Wot’s it about? I dunno. You expect me to READ the damn thing??)
ALL they care about is their votes. So if some elected whacko thinks that ALTERNATIVE GREEN ENERGY is the voter’s favorite, the only way to go, and that WIND, SOLAR, GEOTHERMAL and FLOWER POWER will easily and totally replace Oil and Gas, and if he votes and speaks that environmental Green mumbo-jumbo politically correct Geek speak, well, that’s fine, we will declare him an ENEMY POLITICIAN, and label him as such on the web site. Then it’s just a matter of going after him, and attacking his voter base. Make sure that all the voters who have anything to do with earning a living directly or indirectly from Oil and Gas KNOW this idiot’s policies.

We can take a leaf out of the book of the Minute Men. These stalwarts are protesting the abandonment of the US border, and the tens of thousands of illegals flooding across every week.
Here is the Minutemen’s Strategy Book:
*** Carefully monitor the Enemy, and track his movements.
*** Report a planned public event, such as a town hall meeting, back to the Enemy Politician Harassment Committee as soon as possible.
*** Inform the troops.
*** Turn out as many volunteers as you can, and crowd the town hall meeting.
*** Go well prepared, and ask lots of awkward questions. Show the incompetent bum up for what he is.
*** Record the whole thing on video.
*** Post to the web site and the Internet.
*** Make sure his voter base get the video, and see for themselves what a clown this politician is, and realize that their future “vote for the clown” is a vote against their own jobs!

Hmmm…..

Would that work for the Brotherhood of Oil and Gas Workers?

I don’t see why not.

(To be continued…)

Horace Oilee

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Last edited by Horace Oilee on December 18, 2010, 9:15 pm

Message from Horace Oilee “Animal Farm is coming to you ” Nov 17, 2010

BOEMRE…. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (All kneel…)
Translated: Bureaucrats Over Everything, Missing Required Expertise????

The Gulf of Mexico in November, 2010 is stagnating. Pure and simple. The wheels of Free Enterprise are seizing up. Or, to put it bluntly, the wheels of Commerce are being sabotaged.
Why…!??
And with it, jobs. Hundreds of jobs. Maybe, very soon, thousands of jobs. Tens of thousands of jobs.
Why…!??
We Oil and Gas Workers know it, but Billy Jo Public, outrageously misled by the media, cynically misled by Big (Gormless) Government, doesn’t get it. Yet.
They will, sadly, get it, one day. Right in the shorts. Ka-BOOM in the wallet. When it’s too late. THEN there will be weeping and wailing. Outrage.
And pretty speeches from dim witted politicians. Well groomed puppets spouting empty promises.
Too late…

Start drilling, or start PAYING.

Little Barry Obama was fond of saying during the election rah-rag-rah that he would “lead us by the calloused hand”. Dude, you wouldn’t recognize a calloused hand if it slapped you round the room. YOU sure as hell never got a blister on your pretty little fingers…
If you, dear Reader, are a humorist, with a sense of profound historical irony, then you might be quietly shaking your head. The whole world wants Oil. The whole world is hunting for Oil. Exploring, drilling, investing.
Except… the United States Gormless Government in the Gulf of Mexico.

Governments all over the world are being very nice to Multi National Oil Exploration Companies. Big Investors. Except Hugo Chavez. But old Hugo is just another cliché socialist yapping bumpkin, promoted way above his level of incompetence. And he’ll soon learn his lesson about the cold facts of RealPolitik. Just another Community Organiser, somehow propelled by the Ignorant to lofty heights of Total Ignorance. Who does that remind you of?
But not the American Government. Our stellar “leaders” (when they are not worrying about the island of Guam tipping over, see here) or when they are not hiding their ignorance by the transparent means of resorting to Complete Gobbledygook ( click here) , or when they are not simply Denying Awkward Reality (see here), still just don’t get it. The “solutions” they advocate are always variants of the same tired old saw:

MORE GOVERNMENT!
MORE SELF IMPORTANCE FOR US, THE CROOKED POLITICIANS, WHO SCREWED IT ALL UP IN THE FIRST PLACE!

Or even, (A REALLY TIRED old saw):
LET US NATIONALIZE OIL AND GAS AND TAKE IT ALL OVER!! (RAH-RAH-RAH!!)

Yeah, well, that has NEVER been tried before, and has ALWAYS worked, right? That’s why Russia has Free Enterprise today. And even a flat tax…
Students of History should be able to spot the trend. No matter how badly ‘Gormless Government’ screws up, the solution is ALWAYS “More Government”. More self importance for the strutting political peacocks. More busy-body meddling. More bureaucrats. More taxes. More regulations. More distortions in the Free Enterprise Price-Supply-Demand Model. More false indicators. More propping up of inefficient (politically well connected) companies with tax payer monies.
But with the “new” MMS, the revamped Mineral Management Services, even this nutty bunch of dangerous Narcissists in Washington DC are REALLY turning over a new leaf. Now we are moving in a direction that conjures up fears in the Oil and Gas Industry of a SINISTER NEW TREND.
First, let’s examine the way the BOEMRE has come into being.
First, from “Wikinews”, on May 27,2010, I quote:

After reports that President Barack Obama has fired the director of the Minerals Management Service, Elizabeth “Liz ” Birnbaum, the Interior Department revealed that she instead resigned “on her own volition “. The resignation occurred amidst growing criticism of the federal government’s response to the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and the agency’s oversight over offshore drilling.
Birnbaum, who became director in June 2009, was expected to testify before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives today with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. She was not present when Salazar began to speak, however. Salazar said in a statement: “She is a good public servant. She resigned today on her own terms and on her own volition. I thank her for her service and wish her the very best. “
News agencies had reported that Birnbaum was forced out of office, and Obama was expected to officially announce the supposed firing later today in a news conference along with discussing an Interior Department report on the explosion. Birnbaum observed in her letter of resignation that Salazar “will be requiring three new leaders for the Office Natural Resources Revenue, the Bureau of Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ” as the entire Minerals Management Service is reorganized.

Hmmm…. 1) Who is thinking “scapegoat” here? 2) and who is thinking that there is nothing new with a Government changing a name, shuffling some faces, and presenting the same old dog and pony show?
If you think that regarding the second item, you might, in your defense, point to Franklin D.Roosevelt’s “alphabet soup of agencies”. FDR is Little Barry’s real hero, as opposed to his proclaimed admiration for Abraham Lincoln. (I don’t think Abraham Lincoln would have had much regard for the Village Idiot from Kenya). FDR had everybody (including himself) totally confused with a seemingly unlimited amount of very expensive agencies. Government fiefdoms, that wasted truly prodigious amounts of taxpayer money. Government experiments. So bizarre, so extreme, that different agencies were often promoting diametrically opposite policies. Just like today. But no matter, whenever public dissatisfaction became too much, there would be a quick shuffle, a change at the helm, and a new wide-eyed wonder would be introduced to the Obliging Media cameras. Nice things would be said about him or her, until such time as it was time to change the show…
Meanwhile… behind the scenes, the exact same middle level “Apparatchiks”, secure in their Ivory Towers, continued to regulate, enforce, tax and destroy, the earnings of hard working Americans.
So you could be excused for pointing to History, and stating your opinion that the current facelift of the MMS, the fancy-dancy BOEMRE (Bureaucrats Over Everything Missing Required Expertise), is just more political razzle-dazzle, and the inevitable result of having a President who is totally, hilariously, out of his depth. But has to be seen to be “doing something”, so Billy Jo Public will keep voting for him.
I think you are wrong. Stop right there.
BOEMRE is dangerous. A whole new threat to hundreds of thousands of American Oil and Gas Workers and supporting industries..
Why…?!!

Because of the emergence of a whole new, ruthless, Soviet-era methodology.

No, I don’t mean the simple fact that NO permits are being issued. The Moratorium has been lifted? Ha-ha-ha! That’s funny.
No, I don’t mean the simple fact that everything is being BOGGED DOWN in reams and reams of paper work and irrelevant minutiae.
No, I don’t mean the simple fact that they are effectively shutting down deep water drilling in the Gulf.
No, I don’t mean that there are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of jobs on the line.
No, I don’t mean that Big Oil is seriously wondering if the risk of “Unlimited Liability” is worth the potential profits.
No, I don’t mean that drilling companies are upping their rigs and moving abroad. Far, far away. Never to return.
No, I don’t mean that thousands of hard working husbands and fathers are worried about their jobs and their families, their mortgages and their bills.

Much of all that could be (partially) excused by the usual bumbling bureaucratic incompetence. By the fear of the faceless bureaucrat for his job. The fear of being held accountable.
No, there is much more coming into play here.
Consider the stories coming in from all directions. All corners. Reports of a whole new governmental ruthlessness.
MMS Inspectors with years of experience, SUMMARILY FIRED.
Inspectors with years of experience, placed on TWO YEARS probation. TWO YEARS AHEAD. This is unheard of.
Inspectors fearful of having a cup of coffee on a platform offshore, never mind having a MEAL.
Inspectors afraid of their jobs, their futures, their retirement…. RUTHLESSLY under the thumb.
Can you imagine what it’s like trying to eat your sandwiches, on your own, after they have spent six hours on a helicopter on a hot day?
Can you imagine what it’s like, after years of trying to do your job, to be facing interminable PROBATION, subject to termination on a moment’s notice?
Can you imagine what it’s like to have the STASI Police go through your deleted emails, each and every one, Gestapo style, hunting for ANYTHING to hold over you? To use as a lever?
Can you imagine what it’s like to be questioned about the fact that you went to a youth football match, where an oil worker was also present? Despite the fact that you live in the same village, and have known each other for decades? Where now your constitutional rights?
Can you imagine what it’s like to be grilled by new bosses, who don’t know a drilling rig from a production platform? A Derrick barge from a floating casino??
Whose only claim to power over you is not knowledge, (for they have none), but the right political connections?
But who, by God, WILL sit in absolute judgment of YOU??
These, and many other stories, paint a truly frightening picture of the arrival of a new breed of BOEMRE “management”.
An over class, in charge, ruthlessly wielding its new found clout. This is George Orwell stuff. 1984. Animal Farm.
The newly arrived BOEMRE upper management is making a crazy grab for Absolute Power. Gone is any pretense to being a servant of the people. A servant of the tax payer.
The new “Apparatchiks” in BOEMRE don’t care if the Gulf deep water drilling program slows to a crawl.
They only care about their Power, their own careers, and not getting fired. There IS no ‘common sense’.

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I watched a goods train arrive in Warszaw, Poland. Many, many years ago. Long before their independence, when the Russians still occupied it, and the Communists were in total control of everything.
When the shops were empty, there were huge (massive) potholes in all the roads, and when a gang of us once actually drank a Hotel Bar dry. They ran out of beer…
I was there, under cover. Masquerading as a truck driver… Smuggling all kinds of dangerous stuff. Right under the noses of the ubiquitous AK-47’s.
There was fear in the air. Fear of a violent crackdown by the Communists on the Polish trade union, Solidarity. Fear of what might happen. Memories of the violence in Hungary in 1956, and Checho Slovakia under Alexander Dubcek… When Russian tanks crushed the aspirations of Freedom.
On this train, there were hundreds of car shells. They were unpainted, and rusting. But they were obviously newly manufactured. It seemed very odd. Curiously, I made enquiries. My curiosity always gets me into trouble. I discovered they were on the way to the Apparatchiks, the Bureaucrats, for INSPECTION. After being INSPECTED, they would be sent BACK two hundred miles to the factory. Meanwhile, they were RUSTING AWAY, unpainted, with zero prime, in the harsh Polish autumn weather. I asked, in amazement, if it would not be much smarter if the BUREAUCRATS would get off their bureaucratic asses and go to the FACTORY??
Somebody translated my devastating insight into Polish, for the benefit of a group of listeners. Everybody burst out laughing. In reply, they told me:
“That is too logical!”
“This is the Communist Workers’ paradise! You don’t expect efficiency!”
“The Apparatchiks rule everything from their warm offices! That is why we starve and freeze!”

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And here I sit, in America, the country of my dreams, the country I love, in November 2010, sadly watching the relentless march of the New Wave of Apparatchiks.
They are coming. To rule us. More and more. Because they know better. Than we do. How to spend our wages, and live our lives.
I have… some ideas about what we Oil and Gas Workers can maybe do.
In the next while, permit me to write about some suggestions I would like to make…

Horace Oilee

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Last edited by Horace Oilee on December 18, 2010, 9:03 pm

So the Moratorium is lifted?- Really?- so why is nobody cheering? 10/13/2010

The great Washington Elite, the Exalted Wise Ones “Up There”, hath spoken: the Moratorium is “over”. All kneel… Raise your beer cans. Are you feeling emotional yet?

Out of the goodness of his heart, exercising compassion on the dirty, unwashed, ragged Oil and Gas Workers from down Louisiana way, Grand Pooh-Bah Ken Salazar, our beloved Interior Secretary, has decreed that the Moratorium is no longer required. Why? Well, if you believe the political hype, and the fawning Media hype, (same thing), then the credit is due to our Government. Hurrah! Hurrah! Thanks be to goodness, (and Mullah Obah-MA! Of course) new safety rules have been written by our Government, and it is these Safety Rules which are saving the day. New regulations. New requirements. And lots of nice new bureaucrats have been appointed, to keep an experienced eye on those nasty Oil and Gas Workers. Wonderful work, our Government does. Wonderful work.

Actually… they have not all been written yet, those rules. Some have. Sort of. But most of it is still to come. But as we all know, the Government is full of Experts. They know all about Oil and Gas. (and Banks, Finance, Health Care, manufacturing cars…) So that shouldn’t take too long. A decade or three perhaps. And as for all those very nice bureaucrats, who are very knowledgeable about Oil and Gas… they have not yet all been appointed. But that shouldn’t take too long. There are stacks of volunteers for these $150,000 per year jobs. Green Peace activists, Environmental Apostles, Wash the Pelican Acolytes, and Hug the Bunny Believers, are busy standing in line to be considered. After all, they have lots and lots of experience, flying over the Oil Spill in BP chartered helicopters, looking down and tutting furiously. It will all work out. We know what a great Job the Government did with the Post office, when they had a Monopoly.

If you are an Oil and Gas Worker, (“And Damn Proud of it”) (see our bumper stickers) or an Oil and Gas Consumer (“And Damn Proud of it”), then you might just be feeling a whole lot less than elated. Bowing down and kissing Ken Salazar’s feet may not be your first instinct right now. Whatever the Non Gulf States might think, whatever Jo Public elsewhere might think, the Oil and Gas Worker is feeling cynical. And betrayed.

Why?

It’s not just going to take “a few weeks for drilling activities to resume.” Dream on, Mr Salazar.
It’s going to take somewhere between many, many months and for-frickin’-ever. Consider the ugly truth behind this election orientated gimmickry.
Who honestly thinks the Government can run anything? What good can conceivably come from introducing a mammoth, paper pushing bureaucracy, staffed by a newly appointed horde of pencil sucking, desk driving Soviet Era State “Apparatchiks “? Enforcing reams and reams of new regulations that have not even been written yet? You have to be an out an out Statist, a blind devotee of the concept of Big Government, to believe much real good will ever come from such a layer of expensive Middle Men. Much more likely is the scenario of endless delays, paper shuffling, costs, frustration, and, ultimately, reduced investment in the Gulf of Mexico. Ergo: less and less jobs.

But truthfully, we suspect that is really the intent, anyway. This Administration is irrevocably wedded to the need for votes at any cost. If pandering to the extreme “Eco-tists” , the “Greens” and the Bunny Huggers is what it takes to win the election, then nobody in Washington is going to lose any sleep over several hundred thousand Oil and Gas Sector Workers in the Gulf States. Let them rot. Let them eat cake. The Billions of taxpayer dollars sent overseas, to places like Mexico and Brazil, have made sure that those nations love us. Forever. And of course they will keep the price of their Oil down as low as possible if they see the Gulf of Mexico stagnate. Right? So what’s a few hundred thousand Americans unemployed? Who cares. Our Mullah-in-Chief may talk compassion for the unemployed, but his actions prove otherwise…
Looking at Comrade Salazar’s own words, we see him, as always, jumping through hoops to please the extreme eco-tists. “As we transition to a clean energy economy, we will still need oil and gas from the Gulf of Mexico to power our homes, our cars, our industry.”
A “clean energy economy”. Wow. So what does that make us? The dirty, unwashed, polluters of Creation? The “filthy energy economy”? The unfortunately needed economy, to be kept alive for as short a period as possible, until such time as “clean energy” arrives, in the form of solar, wind, geothermal, bunny power and rice milk??

The naivety of Jo Public regarding the fundamental importance of Oil and Gas from the Gulf of Mexico, is unfortunate. Most states couldn’t care less that 30% of US energy requirements come from down here. Most voters couldn’t care less either, as long as they can enjoy all the benefits of the labor and toil of the Oil and Gas Man. Few voters stop to consider the strategic importance of Gulf of Mexico Energy.

The bottom line of all this is clear:

1) The Moratorium may be theoretically “over”, but in practice, what one Government hand appears to be giving, the other is quickly taking away. Huge obstacles are being put in place to a free and unfettered investment in the Gulf of Mexico.
2) The continued financial shakedown of BP amounts to an orgy of predatory litigation. Everybody and his dog can sue, will sue, must sue, and is being encouraged to sue. The whole concept of “unlimited liability” will give many an investor second thoughts. In what is an expensive and risky undertaking anyway, deep water drilling in US waters may prove to many to be too much like Russian Roulette. Why assume the risk, when around the world, other governments are welcoming Investors with open arms?

Between Red Tape and Unlimited Liability, the Multi National must ponder his options.
He is not helped by Jo Public, the voter, who is asleep at the steering wheel, taking way too much for granted. He may not wake up until it’s too late, and when he sees the price of a gallon of gas go through the proverbial roof. “Then stick a windmill up your exhaust pipe, and see how quick you go…”
The message we Oil and Gas workers need to get out to the voters is crucial:

“Start drilling – or start paying!”

Keep kicking!

Horace Oilee

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Last edited by Horace Oilee on December 18, 2010, 9:02 pm

Believe your trustworthy Media? – October 6, 2010

With the mid term elections looming, the American ‘Oil and Gas Man’ may ask himself how much trust and reliance he can reasonably place on the Bally-Hoopla overwhelmingly Left Wing Media. Not a lot, is his most likely conclusion. Why? Well, these are the same trustworthy, unbiased, objective journalists who:

* concentrated all their cameras on less than thirty acres of oil down Plaquemines Parish way, ignoring the
thousands and thousands of acres of unspoiled marshland surrounding it.
* concentrated all their cameras on a minute fraction of the coastline that was affected, ignoring the
overwhelming majority of beaches unaffected.
* ignored for months, not just for weeks, this INCONVENIENT FACT: the hundreds of thousands of jobs in the Gulf
States alone, that depend directly or indirectly on the Investment in Oil and Gas Exploration. I say “ignored ”
with emphasis. Not a mention. It seemed as if BP was some Monolithic Giant, the personification of All Evil, and
somehow synonymous with “US Oil and Gas Sector “. Duh.
* ignored for months, not just for weeks, this INCONVENIENT FACT: everybody who has a 401(K), or any similar
retirement fund, Private or State, was losing out, big time, as BP stock tanked. I checked my 401(K) within 24
hours. I owned no BP stock directly, but some of my mutual funds had significant exposure. I watched all the
major media Outlets for weeks and weeks. Surely SOMEBODY would mention these INCONVENIENT FACTS? Hell, no. It
was just one long, drawn out BP Slam Fest.
* endangered jobs and livelihoods of thousands of good folk working in hotels, boarding houses, and related
tourist industries.

A few, a very odd few, have dared to raise a little murmur. “Maybe we over did it… ”
“Maybe people got hurt because of our biased coverage… “
See the story quoted elsewhere on this web site.
But most, ever eager to pour gasoline on the fire, any fire, are just as belligerently ANTI the US Oil and Gas Worker as ever.

The midterm elections are approaching. Do you really believe one word the Media are telling you? That the economy is in great shape? That the TARP bailout was a success? That the tax payer is NOT on the hook for 700 Billion, but “only ” for 90 Billion? That growth is underway? That housing is improving? That job losses are not as bad as expected? Try telling that to the thousands of people worrying about the future of their jobs today, courtesy of this stunningly under-qualified regime currently in power and preening itself for the gullible Jo Public.

Stand by for pre-election tricks of the trade. Nothing much would surprise me. Will they end the Moratorium? I doubt it. Little Barry O. is far too frightened of the noisy environmental movement. They matter much more to him than a few hundred thousand jobs in those ungrateful Gulf states. Scrapping the Moratorium would require a modicum of common sense, a commodity rare amongst the Washington elite. But if they DID do so, with great fanfare, watch for the other hand… For what does it gain the US Oil Man, if the Moratorium gets canceled, but ‘the other hand’ effectively continues to strangle Gulf of Mexico development by the means of the bureaucratic hand? Canceling permits, introducing long paper shuffling delays, short term rule changes, short term different interpretations of rules…? The complaints of bureaucratic obstacles have reached an all time high.

The immediate casualty of this do-gooder, bunny hugging, wholly unrealistic ‘environmental extremism’ is business investment confidence. If you are a Multi-National, and faced with a choice between the Gulf of Mexico (hostile politicians, sue-happy, infinite liability, rabid left-wing media, bureaucratic bloody-mindedness…) and some overseas Nation where they are waiting with open arms… where are you going to go?

I checked my portfolio within 24 hours of the Deepwater Explosion. I didn’t have BP directly, only indirectly through Mutual Funds. I did have Trans-Ocean. I like them. I always thought it was a well run company.
I still own them. Sure, the stock took a dip, and it still has some way to come back. But they have departed the Gulf, they are based in Switzerland… and I’m sure they are shaking their heads. Gulf of Mexico? USA? To face a bunch of intellectual lightweights in Government, who think the year is 1914? And who still yap on about “Capitalism “? AS opposed to Free Market Enterprise? I don’t think they will ever be back. Bye-bye…
The same or similar for Anadarko, Diamond Offshore, Ensco…?? Who else?

And of course, stand by for an emotional Little Barry OH-Ba-Mah making some tear-jerker speech and trying some massive blanket amnesty immigration coup. Out of the goodness of his heart of course. Nothing to do with Power, keeping Power, staying in Power, cost what cost.

These are trying times for anybody who depends on the economic health of the American Oil and Gas Worker.

The Media spin is in full swing. A healthy dose of Bull Manure is coming our way…

Horace Oilee

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Message from Horace Oilee, 9/13/2010

Hi Folks,

First we had Nixon’s WATERGATE.
(gross exaggerations, distortions, outright lies, cover-ups….)

and now…,

From the makers of CLIMATEGATE…

(The Himalaya’s will be free of glaciers within two decades, the Earth is getting hotter, no, colder, no, hotter…. we climate scientists are honest and never, ever manipulate, lie, cheat, cover up, distort or otherwise monkey with climate data…)

(gross exaggerations, distortions, outright lies, cover-ups, pressure put on dissidents to shut up, manipulation of data, manipulation of observations, presentation of political fancy as scientific fact, attempted grab for sweeping political power, attempted take-over of the poltical system, attempted extortion of vast carbon taxes, attempted reduction of the United States as a humble member of the United Nations, and above all…
RIDICULE of opponents as selfish, blind, uninformed, ecologically uncaring primitives…..)

I am PLEASED to present to YOU…..

DEEPWATERGATE……!!!

(gross exaggerations, distortions, outright lies, cover-ups, pressure put on dissidents to shut up, manipulation of data, manipulation of observations, presentation of political fancy as scientific fact, attempted grab for sweeping political power, attempted take-over of the poltical system, attempted extortion of vast carbon taxes, attempted reduction of the United States as a humble member of the United Nations, and above all…
RIDICULE of opponents as selfish, blind, uninformed, ecologically uncaring primitives…..)

Yep.
Same tune, same drummers, same gullible Jo Public, lapping it all up.

It’s time to PUSH BACK!

Push back, or face:

*** a never ending threat to our employers, and therefore to us

*** Oil exploration and Drilling Jobs exported overseas

*** More cynical media manipulation designed to hand more and power to governmental bureaucrats

I invite you to read Francis Meyrick’s story next,

Eco Boom-Boom 1) “SO WHERE IS THE OIL SPILL? “

Keep Pushing Back!

Horace Oilee

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(from the hip, Cajun style)

HI FOLKS
IF YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES WORK IN THE OIL PATCH, AS A ROUGHNECK, ROUSTABOUT, CRANE DRIVER, ENGINEER, TRUCK DRIVER, WELDER, PAINTER, BUS DRIVER, CATERER, ETC, ETC, ETC, or ANY SUPPORTING SERVICE INDUSTRY, IN ANY JOB THAT DEPENDS ON OUR OIL AND GAS HEROES WORKING HARD TO POWER AMERICA,
THEN….A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME…

AS YOU KNOW OUR CORRUPT CRONY-IN-CHARGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE ..
(HELLO, GEORGIE SOROS! WE LOVE YOU! HERE’S A FEW BILLION OF US TAXPAYER DOLLARS! WANNAPLAY SOME GOLF?)
…BELIEVES HE CAN WALK ON WATER.
NOW HE IS TRYING A NEW TRICK:
WALKING ON OIL.
HE HAS ALLIED WITH HIM AN OVERWHELMINGLY BIASED MEDIA, CONSISTING OF UNINFORMED TALKING HEADS, WHO DON’T KNOW A DRILLING RIG FROM A PIZZA PARLOR.

OIL AND GAS POWERS AMERICA.
OIL AND GAS POWERS OUR CIVILIZATION!
AMERICA IS STILL A SUPER POWER!
(WE KNOW MR OBAMA HAS SOME RESERVATIONS THERE, BUT WE DO NOT)
MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, EVERYTHING IS TOUCHED BY OIL AND GAS. EITHER MADE FROM IT, TRANSPORTED BY IT, ENERGIZED BY IT, OR MADE POSSIBLE BY IT.
OIL IS NOT JUST A GOOEY, STICKY, HORRIBLE BLACK SLUDGE THAT NEEDS STICKING BACK DOWN A DEEP HOLE IN THE GROUND, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN, AND QUICKLY REPLACED OVERNIGHT BY (DREAM, DREAM, DREAM) CLEAN SOLAR ENERGY AND WIND AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY. OIL IS OUR WAY OF LIFE. THE HYDROCARBON DOES THE HEAVY LIFTING.

IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME, TRY STICKING A WINDMILL UP YOUR PIPE AND SEE HOW FAST YOU GO.
IF YOU WANT TO BOYCOTT ALL PRODUCTS TOUCHED BY OIL, MISSY TREE HUGGER, I SURE HOPE, DARLING, THAT YOU ARE BLOND AND BOOTIFUL, AND I HOPE I’LL BE THERE TO SEE IT.

(cartoon coming of an embarrassed blond with a figleaf)

SO HOW ABOUT THIS MORATORIUM? WHAT LEMMING FROM KENYA THINKS THE AMERICAN OILMAN AND HIS EXTENDED FAMILY IS GOING TO SIT IDLY BY, FOLLOW HIM, AND WATCH THE OIL INDUSTRY IN THE GULF OF MEXICO BEATEN TO A PULP, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WHILST BILLIONS OF THEIR TAXPAYER DOLLARS GO TO BRAZIL TO BRAZENLY HELP GEORGIE BOY SOROS BUILD UP PETROBRAS IN DIRECT COMPETITION? HEY BARRY OBAMA, YOU THINK WE’RE YOUR SERFS? YOUR DEVOTED MINIONS? IRRELEVANT LITTLE ANNOYANCES THAT JUST DON’T GETTIT? YOU THINK IT’S YOUR MONEY YOU ARE BLOWING IN THE SOLAR WIND?

SO WHERE ARE WE AT NOW, SEPTEMBER 2010? LEMME TELL YOU WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS, AND WE HAVE TWO CHOICES HERE.

THE FIRST:
SURRENDER. ROLL OVER MEEKLY, AND HOPE SOMEBODY TICKLES OUR TUMMY

THE SECOND:
SCREAM BLUE BLOODY MURDER

IT’S NOT FUN BEING AN OILMAN TODAY, IS IT? DO YOU FEEL YOU ARE WIDELY REGARDED AS A DIRTY, SUPERFLUOUS BUM FROM LOUISIANA WHO IS MESSING UP THE PRISTINE BLUE WATERS OF THE GULF OF MEXICO, KILLING EVERY PELICAN IN SIGHT AND MESSING WITH FLIPPER THE DOLPHIN?

BUT IT GETS BETTER. OH, YEAH.
ENTER THE VOTE-CRAZED POLITICIANS WHO HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WHO NEVER READ BOOKS ON HISTORY AND ECONOMICS, (AS EVIDENCED FROM THEIR RIDICULOUS BABBLINGS) (EH? COMRADE NANCY PELOSI? HOPE YOUR EARS ARE BURNING!) BUT WHO ARE SO CLEVER THAT THEY UNHESITATINGLY TELL YOU AND ME HOW TO SPEND OUR HARD EARNED MONEY! IN FACT, THEY MAKE IT EASY FOR US, REACH RIGHT INTO OUR WALLETS AND JUST SPEND IT ON OUR BEHALF!

MOBILE PHONES ON WELFARE!
COMING SOON: WIDE SCREEN TELLY ON WELFARE!
WEEKLY BEER ALLOWANCE ON WELFARE!
THIRD CAR ON WELFARE!

HERE IS A CARTOON (coming) OF THE SELF APPOINTED SAVIORS OF THE HUDDLED MASSES. HARD FACTS DO NOT MATTER TO THE VOTE OBSESSED CLOWN FROM KENYA. WHATEVER CAUSE THE POPULAR SWINGS OF FANCY SEEM TO FAVOR, THAT WILL BE THE CAUSE THEY WILL CHAMPION. REALITY OF ENERGY NEEDS? REALITY OF ECONOMICS? REALITY OF THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS? WHO CARES? JUST VOTE FOR ME, BECAUSE I AM THE MESSIAH!

HEY LITTLE BARRY! WE’VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU. WE’RE MAD, AND WE AREN’T TAKING YOUR CRONY CAPITALISM ANY MORE.

LIFT THE MORATORIUM, DUMB ASS !

STOP PLAYING POLITICAL FOOTBALL WITH OUR JOBS AND FAMILIES!

HAVE A NICE DAY

HORACE

PS: PASS IT ON !

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