Yep.
Reminds me of this. Who is in the White House.
Victoria Jackson: “There’s A Communist Living in the White House!!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWi182CMJY8
Tell ya what, the only cure for this madness is to glass the entire region. I'm absolutely sure the oil industry's drill bits are more than adequate to cut through that glass to get to the oil...