In a recent post from Energy Transition Absurdities , a comment like no other from Carbonates. David Blakmon, I really appreciate your work. As someone who has spent a career in the oil industry, first as a commercial oilfield diver working in the Gulf of Mexico, then many years as an exploration geologist and currently as a production geologist, I do love the industry (it has always been an adventure) and your commentary and publications help support my job. The industry has always done a very bad job of promoting its own virtues, to the point that some majors seem to have lost their purpose in an effort to fit in. Few realize that the oil industry has the highest paying jobs of any industry, including Big Tech, per the WSJ study done a few years ago. Few appreciate that "oil is the economy." And few appreciate the idea that has been made visible by writers like Alex Epstein that human flourishing is more important than this fallacious idea that climate is a static system and should never change. Human flourishing is clearly the greatest benefit that the oil industry has given the world. I do like to add that the oil industry is really the one responsible for saving the whales. Whales would have gone extinct in the 19th century if not for oil and natural gas competing with whale oil for lighting.
Buy that Carbonate guy a beer. What a beautiful and eloquent post. Carbonate’s comment about property rights lays at the core of my belief system. One can immediately judge if something is moral by simply asking your question, “does this action violate the property rights of others?” Thanks for the post GLF!
Absolutely stunning. This should be printed on every gasoline pump in the U.S. instead of those silly TV screens playing some ridiculous commercials. Keep up the great writing and great work!
Buy that Carbonate guy a beer. What a beautiful and eloquent post. Carbonate’s comment about property rights lays at the core of my belief system. One can immediately judge if something is moral by simply asking your question, “does this action violate the property rights of others?” Thanks for the post GLF!
What a great letter.
Absolutely stunning. This should be printed on every gasoline pump in the U.S. instead of those silly TV screens playing some ridiculous commercials. Keep up the great writing and great work!
Beautifully said! Straight from the heart and very true!
I’m saving this one!!
Well said, Leaper!
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