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2013-10-06 Science & Technology

U.S. is now the worlds biggest oil and gas producer

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Posted by 3dc 2013-10-06 00:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Tell me again why you need a stable ME.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-06 01:30|| 2013-10-06 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 If by 'stable', you mean flat, glassy and slightly warm...

Posted by SteveS 2013-10-06 03:02|| 2013-10-06 03:02|| Front Page Top

#3 ...glows in the dark...

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-06 08:26|| 2013-10-06 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 This is a really bitter pill for the left to swallow.

Posted by Matt 2013-10-06 08:30|| 2013-10-06 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, hey people---I live here!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-06 08:44|| 2013-10-06 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 This is a really bitter pill for the left to swallow

I'm sure they'll swallow the profits easily.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-06 08:45|| 2013-10-06 08:45|| Front Page Top

#7 ..we'll wait till the winds blow strongly to the East.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-06 09:05|| 2013-10-06 09:05|| Front Page Top

#8 ...And we're being run by the one set of goons who absolutely can NOT appreciate what this means.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2013-10-06 09:09|| 2013-10-06 09:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I think they appreciate the fact that a conversation between a Harvard ethnic studies graduate and a kid with a petroleum engineering degree from LSU now includes the question "And do you want fries with that?"

Posted by Matt 2013-10-06 10:25|| 2013-10-06 10:25|| Front Page Top

#10 LOL and why aren't you preparing for Hell-Storm Karen Matt?

Posted by Shipman 2013-10-06 10:26|| 2013-10-06 10:26|| Front Page Top

#11 And all on Obama's watch!

Champ almost got away with taking credit for it during the pre-election debate.

Posted by Bobby 2013-10-06 10:39|| 2013-10-06 10:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Just think how much farther ahead we could be if Obama and the EPA hadn't done everything they could to stifle production!

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-10-06 11:47|| 2013-10-06 11:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Rambler: Beat me to it. We have natural gas up the....well you know. Instead of this electric car crap, we could be running fleet vehicles and commuters on natural gas. Even can cogenerate for residential and commercial buildings.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-10-06 13:28|| 2013-10-06 13:28|| Front Page Top

#14 The "proper" sort of people aren't running those companies, AP.

D.C. just can't ~~benefit from~~ relate to them.

Posted by Pappy 2013-10-06 14:09|| 2013-10-06 14:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Imagine how much more we could do if there were not an obstructionist regime in power? Keystone, shale, more areas open for exploration and production...

Posted by OldSpook 2013-10-06 17:03|| 2013-10-06 17:03|| Front Page Top

#16 I told this to my guys here in our work unit out on the rig and they were pretty meh about it. In fact, there's still alot of hostility toward oil field workers out there. My wife gets no sympathy for the fact I am gone half or more of the month, people assume we make craptons of money, which I don't. And worse yet, they watch those horrid programs like Black Gold which pretty much has nothing to do with the real oilfield.

I should be happy about this I guess but it's hard to generate alot of whee while the rig is out here bobbing like a cork and I don't get to go home to my wife for another two weeks.

Just another long day at work.

Posted by Silentbrick - Oil Rig Insanity Division 2013-10-06 20:03|| 2013-10-06 20:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Talked to an oily one day. To me he was a customer like anyone else. He told me a story about a town which had a rig go in, he worked on that rig. Said the store there increased all their prices and gave out community member discout cards. I was shocked, these guys bust their ass all day long in a dangerous occupation, I respect that.

But it does. not. help. when the drivers run across the highways without stopping, or a pipe truck slamming on its brakes and scalping a prominant family which failed to brake in time, then me and my neighboring associates have to go scrape their neighbor and friend and kids out from underneath a trailor because a driver was trying to make up 2 minutes.

I can seperate that out, know that shit happens, and the drivers should be extra careful when they see those trucks working. A lot of people can't, especially when its family involved.

Driver's safety would be a great place to start. Second would be somehow to show that shunning and poaching field workers, though there may be an immediate financial gain, will keep them and their wallets in the bunks. They have an oder? So what every hard working profession has an oder. Know what a feedlot smells like? Money. Know what petroleum smells like? Money, get some of that smell on ya.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-10-06 21:13|| 2013-10-06 21:13|| Front Page Top

#18 pipe truck slamming on its brakes and scalping a prominent family which failed to brake in time
A tragedy, but how does responsibility fall to the truck driver? Takes a long time to stop those rigs even if they 'slam' on their brakes (without jackknifing.) No ordinary vehicle should be unable to stop in time to not hit them. I must be missing something in your narration.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-10-06 22:30|| 2013-10-06 22:30|| Front Page Top

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