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You are making obscene profits and hurting people in the process.

That make you feel good, you bastard?

It is inherently obvious you do not know diddley sh!t about me. For starters, I was the second child, and mommy and daddy were married before my older sibling was started...

Second, I am a consultant, not an owner.

While that distinction may be lost on you, let me put it this way. I only have work when we (the oil industry) are drilling oil wells.

Think about that.

Think about raising three grandkids and having YOUR paycheck completely dry up, and worse yet, having virtually everyone jubilant about it, even though you KNOW the time will come when they will have to pay more because the reserves they are depleting today are not being replaced.

Yeah, I feel good.

I can provide things for my family without worrying for the moment where the money is coming from.

Nothing exotic, just the basics. We have never had a new car, but it is nice for Grandma to be able to own a stove that has all the burners in working order.

I can afford to send the grandchildren we have raised from infancy to parochial school without having to apply for tuition assistance.

It is really nice for the loss of $50 to be an inconvenience instead of a financial crisis.

I can begin to replenish the savings which were consumed during the last price bust just keeping the lights on and food in the cupboard, while I went out and worked construction jobs as a laborer--in a glutted local labor market.

I live in a 1580 square foot house bought for $31,500, back in 1987, and built in 1912, not some Mc Mansion.

Remodeling can again proceed (like everything else, on a cash as we go basis), even though it costs extra to drive the 130 miles to the nearest equivalent of a Home Depot, because we buy gas at the same pumps as everyone else.

YEAH, I FEEL GOOD!

Think about being a patriotic American in good company in a highly conservative industry which is constantly berated in the media (Why do you believe them now?) for providing a strategic commodity, one essential to our county's national security.

According to the Socialist Media, we are evil for drilling at all (ecowhackos), and then evil for not having drilled enough!

This is industry, not some government program. If it does not show a profit for the investors it will not be happening long, if at all. If the prices are too low, no one is going to raise a derrick.

Think about spending long (12-14 hour) days on remote locations, sometimes not getting home for months.

AND YOU HAVE THE UNMITIGATED GALL TO TRY TO MAKE ME FEEL GUILTY ABOUT EARNING A PAYCHECK? YOU SNIVELING PISSANT, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE PRICE, DON'T BUY IT! F'n WALK!

As for me? I am working, and I feel GREAT!