emerald: As in anything in this life, there are winners and losers? So oil goes up, gas goes up...somebody wins, somebody loses? It goes down, somebody wins somebody loses? Just the way it is?
I will tell you, in my area, after the devastating drought of 2002, BSE, bad weather and now a crash in grain prices, about the only thing that kept some of these boys afloat was a couple of Coalbed wells and a few pipelines!
When Natural gas prices crashed this winter, what does that do to the old royalty check? Good for consumers not so good for the farmer who owns the gas!...believe me!
I'm old enough to remember the days when we had no oil and gas activity in my area. I remember my Dad hauling barley to Morningside for 50 cents a bushel! I remember when the car dealerships had to lay off about half the staff because there was nobody buying cars or trucks! Personally those "good old days" actually really sucked! I sometimes think we tend to forget just what this industry has done for this country? How much stability it has brought us?
I hope our leaders know what they are doing? I hope they have the best interests of all of us at heart and will develop our resources in a responsible way? I'm not some kind of expert...hopefully all those little university educated experts know what they are doing? We can either have some faith in our experts or we can be like chicken little and run around saying the sky is falling? The problem with that is nothing goes forward, nothing gets done, and soon we stagnate! When you quit striving...I think you are dead!
I'm all for moving ahead and I do believe in trickle down economics! I know that isn't popular around here? But in my opinion it works and I've lived a life where I've seen it work.
It seems most people on here consider me some kind of fascist or Nazi or something, but in my own mind I am a true socialist! Not the kind who says "here baby, let me give you a sugar tit and wipe your bum" but one who believes everyone needs a chance! A chance to succeed! A chance to be all they can be!
Not a handout, but a hand up?
Over the years I've hired people who most people wouldn't bother with. I believe in people, until they prove me wrong! I do fervently believe every person I meet has something to teach me, whether it is the president of a big company or the bum lying in the gutter! Actually I've met a lot of really interesting bums in the gutter...and no I wasn't there with them! LOL
Hey, I've had my tough times in life too...no one has utopia in this old world? I've muddled through and done my best. At the end of my days I'll know I did a fairly decent job, I think. I helped a few souls along...or so I believe. Just my opinion.
I will tell you, in my area, after the devastating drought of 2002, BSE, bad weather and now a crash in grain prices, about the only thing that kept some of these boys afloat was a couple of Coalbed wells and a few pipelines!
When Natural gas prices crashed this winter, what does that do to the old royalty check? Good for consumers not so good for the farmer who owns the gas!...believe me!
I'm old enough to remember the days when we had no oil and gas activity in my area. I remember my Dad hauling barley to Morningside for 50 cents a bushel! I remember when the car dealerships had to lay off about half the staff because there was nobody buying cars or trucks! Personally those "good old days" actually really sucked! I sometimes think we tend to forget just what this industry has done for this country? How much stability it has brought us?
I hope our leaders know what they are doing? I hope they have the best interests of all of us at heart and will develop our resources in a responsible way? I'm not some kind of expert...hopefully all those little university educated experts know what they are doing? We can either have some faith in our experts or we can be like chicken little and run around saying the sky is falling? The problem with that is nothing goes forward, nothing gets done, and soon we stagnate! When you quit striving...I think you are dead!
I'm all for moving ahead and I do believe in trickle down economics! I know that isn't popular around here? But in my opinion it works and I've lived a life where I've seen it work.
It seems most people on here consider me some kind of fascist or Nazi or something, but in my own mind I am a true socialist! Not the kind who says "here baby, let me give you a sugar tit and wipe your bum" but one who believes everyone needs a chance! A chance to succeed! A chance to be all they can be!
Not a handout, but a hand up?
Over the years I've hired people who most people wouldn't bother with. I believe in people, until they prove me wrong! I do fervently believe every person I meet has something to teach me, whether it is the president of a big company or the bum lying in the gutter! Actually I've met a lot of really interesting bums in the gutter...and no I wasn't there with them! LOL
Hey, I've had my tough times in life too...no one has utopia in this old world? I've muddled through and done my best. At the end of my days I'll know I did a fairly decent job, I think. I helped a few souls along...or so I believe. Just my opinion.
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