Wow. That's great. Really, really great. Can't wait to be trickled on.

Hardy-har-har, suckers!

That man looks like a heartattack that's only minutes away. (don't worry he'll die old----and rich)

Oh c’mon this is not negative, this is an opportunity! Yes! Now you can be the entrepreneur you have always wanted to be, you know, like selling pencils on the street corner.

Thanks Bernard—I'd almost forgotten about this guy. Now his porcine visage will continue to haunt my nightmares.

well, the global oil business is an astonishingly magnificant and complex business. I can't imagine any of you DBs (dumb bunnies) knows the first thing about the engineering or finances of petroleum geology or exploration, drilling, or transportation, or about the logistics and chemistry involved in refining. These guys deserve their money, and they're among the people who make the world turn round, not idle jerk-off parlor intellectuals with simple-minded and simplistic views of economics and business. Ugh. Exxon provides me a vital source of energy, at a reasonable price, with complete 100% reliability. You people just provide me with some cheap laughs and a reminder that Americans are idiots.

"astonishingly magnificant?"

"complete 100% reliability?"

Xyz uses that tired out ploy of you people are too simple to understand the complexities of why you are being screwed, for your own benefit of course. Ah yes naturally no one else could possibly grasp the importance of oil only xyz can. Apparently the word excessive is not part of xyz’s vocabulary though I am encouraged by his/her grasp of the alphabet. I don’t believe anyone would begrudge a profit for the oil companies however when it reaches the point where the government subsidizes the oil companies even while the oil companies are gouging the public and promoting illegal wars where already there are over one million victims a sane person might conclude that enough is enough. The best engineering solutions are typically compromises of function, ease of manufacturing and design intent and I see little compromise when you create a phony war to artificially raise the cost of oil in order to glut your coffers with blood money. However I suppose for xyz as long as he/she is happy with his/her energy bills that is all that matters.

that's gonna be the whole tombstone, right there. if it doesn't all fit — just "ugh."

oh I see you have an equally simplistic view of geo-politics. So the oil companies promote "illegal" wars. Where, do tell. God, you people sound like Matt Damon pontificating about global energy economics. That movie Syriana was abysmally ignorant, while posing as telling the inside story of the industry. One example: damon's character asks, how come the oil commodity exchanges are in London and NY, and not out n the desert? answer: that's where the financial infrastructure is. and the price is not affected a penny by the locale of futures trading. Jeepers, you people really are DBs.

looks like xyz has nailed you again. you're all so dumb and ignorant! you know how he can tell? cos matt damon said something in a film once! pwnd

xyz ravings,
What is this nut doing in this blog? I mean he is so brilliant, isn't he wasting his time lecturing us about the glorious oil companies? Time is money, So why waste it on us.
May be this guy is some rich kid like Dubya who never needs to worry about his job and who revels in telling how dumb all of us are who can't understand what a glorious economic system the capitalism is.
Or may be he is just another libertarian nut.
Or possibly both.

xyz -

Please don't leave this blog, you amuse me.

Regarding just your first posting, there are a number of readers here who understand much more than

"the first thing about the engineering or finances of petroleum geology or exploration, drilling, or transportation, or about the logistics and chemistry involved in refining."

The poster is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, for instance. Do I recall that you dropped out of the tenth grade? You should temper your views and statements.

xyz: I live in Wyoming, I'm looking at a gas well(CBM) in my front yard right now, I see it EVERY day.

Yeah, don't be so hard on Lee, he earned every penny of that $400 million retirement package. And he had nothing to do with the American Enterprise Institute's attempt to bribe scientists into undermining the IPCC report on climate change. Or anything to do with the AEI's promotion of the Iraq war. He was just vice-chairman of the board, not some agenda-setting director. He should be lauded for his selfless work in the non-profit sector.

Also, Michael Moore is still fat.

That man looks like a heartattack that's only minutes away. (don't worry he'll die old----and rich).

The heart attack that takes that ugly, deformed, vile, leering, bejowled blob of shit is gonna hurt like a motherfucker...I hope he survives, for a couple of minutes...

xyz,

I'm glad you revealed that you live in the mountain state area, and in an oil-producing area. No, don't fear me looking you up-- it's not that, but when you mention Wyoming you remind me of one of the problems with oil exploration: water.

As a smart westerner like you must know, there are places, especially in the west, where the growing water needs of the fast-growing populations are getting harder to meet.

Since you are looking at an oil well every day, or so you say, I imagine you see all the water trucks in your neighborhood that service the oil extraction.

When you drill on land, you have to force millions of gallons of water down into a well to extract all that oil, and in the landlocked Mountain states like Wyoming and Utah it sure ain't saltwater from the Pacific.

How much freshwater are we dumping, deep into the earth, which we'll never recover? And don't tell me it will seep into the groundwater and be naturally recycled by nature. It's surrounded by miles of rock, and it's just going to sit there for who knows how many thousands of years.

I'm just saying.

It's Baron Harkonnen - the Floating Fat Man.

DOES xyz live in Wyoming too?
As far as the well in my front yard, I almost shot my neighbor's friend trying to stop that well from being dug, but The Judge from town came out and WE cut a deal right there on the road.

Man, back in 2006, I already presented to the cruel world my proposal for the Lee Raymond dump currency. And now I see that xyz would have been in my corner!

Here was my post at Limited Inc.

For Leading Exxon to Its Riches, $144,573 a Day

The accompanying story tells us about Lee R. Raymond, paid “$686 million from 1993 to 2005, according to an analysis done for The New York Times by Brian Foley, an independent compensation consultant. That is $144,573 for each day he spent leading Exxon's "God pod," as the executive suite at the company's headquarters in Irving, Tex., is known.”

For the better understanding of this great man’s tres riches heures, remember that each day includes lunch and, surely, a pee and a dump. Now, given that Raymond is in his sixties, I imagine that a dump takes about ten minutes. Of course, he could have had some young Brazilian man’s rectum transplanted into his (no doubt, you can check Exxon’s quarterly reports to see – such an operation would surely be a courtesy given by the company, for services rendered, rather than being paid for straight out of his own compensation package – but until better information, I will put it at ten minutes). I’m including wiping and washing the hands – something his fourth wife has surely taught him by now.

So, two Raymond dumps would equal the annual income of your average Cameroonian or Egyptian or Sri Lankan. In the case of the Cameroonian, I would put them at half a Raymond pee.

This is my modest proposal. Imagine if Franklin, Washington and Lincoln came back to life. Imagine them wandering in to some fundraising dinner for the G.O.P plopping themselves down in the seating reserved for "Raymond and party". Do you think that the guards would not be upon them in a second? Do you think those old malcontents would be allowed to stay for a minute, after such a vile act of lese majeste? No, I’m sure you will agree, the offense would be too egregious. They would be fortunate indeed if the secret service, or people claiming to be the secret service, didn't descend upon them and extradite them to a special American prison.

So why, pray tell, do we let that band of gypsies camp on the currency? Why, especially, when we could order the finest engravers of the greatest Republic the world has ever seen to render, in full, rich detail one of the great Raymond dumps, substituting for a history we don't remember and could give a fuck about (banning torture? OMG, please!!!) a sign and symbol we all revere, a veritable american eucharist? I hasten to add, not a whole landscape of the whole mass and accumulation of excretia. Currency is meant to be exchanged, and we don’t need bills that high. I was thinking, however, that to honor the magic of the marketplace, of which the U.S. is a veritable monument and museum, that one finely etched turd, one rich, ravishing portion of the great man’s scat, could, perhaps, take the place of paltry Grant. For smaller denominations, I would suggest we send some of the great chefs with their finest cutlery to slice into appropriate portions that product of great man's dyspepsia. A portion of the turd on the one, the five, the twenty-five and the fifty would remind us by its majestic look in whose country we have temporary residence."

I think xyz would be behind this move to make our currency reflect the people's whose, well, whose turd we really aren't worthy to eat. I'm glad to see that, in spirit at least, he is a brownnoser of the deepest dye. Brother! we can make this happen!

jerk-off parlor intellectuals

I thought I asked you people to stop jerking off in the parlor! That's it, I quit!

looks just one wafer-thin mint away from a nasty end