[quote=briansd1][quote=eavesdropper]
Well, strictly speaking, you are a consumer of the oil industry, not an employee. But I’m nitpicking for nitpicking’s sake. I like to blame it on the nuns who beat me at the orphanage.[/quote]
Nitpick away. 😉
Yes, as a consumer of the oil industry, I’m farther removed from the oil industry; so I have more leeway to criticize the oil industry than a government employee or contractor criticizing the hand that feeds.[/quote]
Brian,
Your attitude is exactly why the US in the the current position with a unresponsive and largely corrupt bureaucracy. If you are not watching and criticizing the oil industry and the government employees or contractors regulating it you have failed in your duty as a citizen just as many of us have. A large portion of this country thinks the same way you do. This is why people why have the government we do.
This country is governed at the will of the citizenship and should reflect the will of the people at all times, not just in times of crisis. Remember Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Who is responsible for watching the watchmen? Why it is us.
