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Sen. Shaheen,
You are quoted from the MSNBC show "Andrea Mitchell Report" of 3 Mar 2022 as saying the following:
“I know there’s hardship on the American people and on everybody who is affected by these high gas prices, but the other thing we need to do is we need to call on our CEOs of the major oil companies to stop sitting on production and increase production. They’ve been sitting on the amount of production because they want to keep the price high. Well, the world needs them to respond now as well. They need to do this so that they can support the free world as we’re trying to fight this tyrant who is trying to put — capture the democracies of the world. And so, we need to all stand together here.”
I have spent the last 25 years of my life working in the offshore oil field sector here in the US. I have watched and listened as your party and your leadership and your president over the last few years attack me as the greatest threat to "our democracy". I have listened to Bernie Sanders claim that, if elected, he would put oil company executives in jail, for doing what you now demand us to do. I watched Joe Biden at the debates say: if I'm elected, “no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends” and similar words to that effect, over and over. Democrat candidates and media talking heads agreed. Within days of his inauguration, he did just that, effectively ending new exploration on federal lands and offshore, closing ANWR back down, killing pipeline projects, just to name a few. This has put a "chilling effect" on corporate leadership both here and abroad. No sane CEO is going to risk billions of dollars in new deepwater drilling projects when the very real risk of being shut down at the stroke of a pen exists. Especially when it is made clear that the ruling class does not want those projects to go forward and is willing to go so far as arrest and jail people who do the work.
Biden is not the only guilty party here. So are you. From your website dated 30 Nov 2018 you stated your opposition to exploration and seismic testing in the Atlantic, in an area less than 300 miles from where Canada has been drilling and producing oil and gas offshore for years now, safely.
“These seismic tests are an immediate threat to our fishing industry, in addition to the long-term threat to New Hampshire’s economy and outdoor recreation industry posed by an oil or gas leak from drilling. The environmental impact of this decision would be catastrophic, further depleting the whale population and many other species that we cherish and are important to our economy. I will do everything in my power to stop this permitting and any efforts to move forward with Atlantic drilling. The Senate should move quickly to consider legislation that I’ve cosponsored with Senator Booker to bar seismic testing in the Atlantic.”
You want us to ramp up oil production, overnight, because you think us oil people are squirreling it away in beer kegs in our back yards or something to artificially raise prices, after you and your party leadership have done everything in your power to kill us off and shut us down?
That's not how international oil and energy markets work. That's an idiotic sophistry thrown out to try and appease the angry mob, that is watching oil and gas prices rise daily.
But I see a larger problem emerging for you and your contemporaries in the ruling class.
I have a skill set I have worked my entire life to acquire, hone and polish. I have spent years at sea, hundreds of hours in training and classrooms and simulators to safely operate ships at sea in support of ultra deepwater oil exploration. Not one in ten thousand people could do what I do, in the stress, environment, weather, massive layers of safety protocols and logistical management and still, at the end of the day do my small part to keep your lights on and your house heated and food on your table. And I was paid well for that, don't get me wrong.
But outside of that, what was my "reward" from the ruling and media classes? I was called a climate criminal, a "white supremacist" by the President of the United States, on numerous occasions, I was told the government would do everything in it's power to kill my industry, to destroy my line of work, to bankrupt my employers, my shipmates and co-workers and me, personally.
And I am not the only one in such a predicament.
When did your party, the so-called "party of the working people", declare war on the working man?
When did your party decide to openly attack the millions of people that, to paraphrase Mike Rowe, "are the unsung heroes that get up every day and do the dirty, thankless jobs that make civilized life possible for all the rest of us"?
The "Productives" in other words.
Well, regardless, it's been done.
Here's where the problem arises.
Again, from your statements on MSNBC:
"-but the other thing we need to do is we need to call on our CEOs of the major oil companies to stop sitting on production and increase production. They’ve been sitting on the amount of production because they want to keep the price high. Well, the world needs them to respond now as well."
While I am only speaking for myself, there are others, by the millions, starting to hold similar thoughts.
No.
I will NOT respond. I don't care how much money an oil company may be willing to throw at me to "respond".
We already "responded" and your leadership and president kneecapped us as a reward for a job well done.
No.
I have "gone Galt" to quote "Atlas Shrugged".
I will no longer put up with stress, strain, danger and workload to safely and efficiently supply the life blood of modern civilization, and then get called a criminal and be bankrupted by petty officials of government and despised and hated by my so called "fellow Americans".
I will no longer make that effort to support a system that hates me.
And here's where the rubber meets the road: that oil company executive has not got any more of a clue than you do about HOW to extract more oil from 35,000 feet below the sea floor of a 10,000 foot deep sea and not blow themselves to Kingdom Come in the process.
But I do, and so do hundreds of thousands of men just like me.
And millions of men and women just like me in a hundred other fields, that know how to grow your food and fix your roads and unplug your drains and rig the electric lines and repair your car and on and on and on.
And we are rightly getting sick and tired of being bashed, mocked, hounded, persecuted and ridiculed as "deplorables", "bitter clingers", "racist white supremacists" and the rest of the endless litany of abuse.
So, no, I will not respond or do my small share or "stand together" in making the oil supply system increase production.
Your party and your leadership and your president were VERY vocal about killing off US oil and gas, with no regard whatsoever about the lives of the "deplorables" that got destroyed along the way.
And he did it, he kept his promise, so own it.
You got exactly what you wanted.
Regards,
You are quoted from the MSNBC show "Andrea Mitchell Report" of 3 Mar 2022 as saying the following:
“I know there’s hardship on the American people and on everybody who is affected by these high gas prices, but the other thing we need to do is we need to call on our CEOs of the major oil companies to stop sitting on production and increase production. They’ve been sitting on the amount of production because they want to keep the price high. Well, the world needs them to respond now as well. They need to do this so that they can support the free world as we’re trying to fight this tyrant who is trying to put — capture the democracies of the world. And so, we need to all stand together here.”
I have spent the last 25 years of my life working in the offshore oil field sector here in the US. I have watched and listened as your party and your leadership and your president over the last few years attack me as the greatest threat to "our democracy". I have listened to Bernie Sanders claim that, if elected, he would put oil company executives in jail, for doing what you now demand us to do. I watched Joe Biden at the debates say: if I'm elected, “no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends” and similar words to that effect, over and over. Democrat candidates and media talking heads agreed. Within days of his inauguration, he did just that, effectively ending new exploration on federal lands and offshore, closing ANWR back down, killing pipeline projects, just to name a few. This has put a "chilling effect" on corporate leadership both here and abroad. No sane CEO is going to risk billions of dollars in new deepwater drilling projects when the very real risk of being shut down at the stroke of a pen exists. Especially when it is made clear that the ruling class does not want those projects to go forward and is willing to go so far as arrest and jail people who do the work.
Biden is not the only guilty party here. So are you. From your website dated 30 Nov 2018 you stated your opposition to exploration and seismic testing in the Atlantic, in an area less than 300 miles from where Canada has been drilling and producing oil and gas offshore for years now, safely.
“These seismic tests are an immediate threat to our fishing industry, in addition to the long-term threat to New Hampshire’s economy and outdoor recreation industry posed by an oil or gas leak from drilling. The environmental impact of this decision would be catastrophic, further depleting the whale population and many other species that we cherish and are important to our economy. I will do everything in my power to stop this permitting and any efforts to move forward with Atlantic drilling. The Senate should move quickly to consider legislation that I’ve cosponsored with Senator Booker to bar seismic testing in the Atlantic.”
You want us to ramp up oil production, overnight, because you think us oil people are squirreling it away in beer kegs in our back yards or something to artificially raise prices, after you and your party leadership have done everything in your power to kill us off and shut us down?
That's not how international oil and energy markets work. That's an idiotic sophistry thrown out to try and appease the angry mob, that is watching oil and gas prices rise daily.
But I see a larger problem emerging for you and your contemporaries in the ruling class.
I have a skill set I have worked my entire life to acquire, hone and polish. I have spent years at sea, hundreds of hours in training and classrooms and simulators to safely operate ships at sea in support of ultra deepwater oil exploration. Not one in ten thousand people could do what I do, in the stress, environment, weather, massive layers of safety protocols and logistical management and still, at the end of the day do my small part to keep your lights on and your house heated and food on your table. And I was paid well for that, don't get me wrong.
But outside of that, what was my "reward" from the ruling and media classes? I was called a climate criminal, a "white supremacist" by the President of the United States, on numerous occasions, I was told the government would do everything in it's power to kill my industry, to destroy my line of work, to bankrupt my employers, my shipmates and co-workers and me, personally.
And I am not the only one in such a predicament.
When did your party, the so-called "party of the working people", declare war on the working man?
When did your party decide to openly attack the millions of people that, to paraphrase Mike Rowe, "are the unsung heroes that get up every day and do the dirty, thankless jobs that make civilized life possible for all the rest of us"?
The "Productives" in other words.
Well, regardless, it's been done.
Here's where the problem arises.
Again, from your statements on MSNBC:
"-but the other thing we need to do is we need to call on our CEOs of the major oil companies to stop sitting on production and increase production. They’ve been sitting on the amount of production because they want to keep the price high. Well, the world needs them to respond now as well."
While I am only speaking for myself, there are others, by the millions, starting to hold similar thoughts.
No.
I will NOT respond. I don't care how much money an oil company may be willing to throw at me to "respond".
We already "responded" and your leadership and president kneecapped us as a reward for a job well done.
No.
I have "gone Galt" to quote "Atlas Shrugged".
I will no longer put up with stress, strain, danger and workload to safely and efficiently supply the life blood of modern civilization, and then get called a criminal and be bankrupted by petty officials of government and despised and hated by my so called "fellow Americans".
I will no longer make that effort to support a system that hates me.
And here's where the rubber meets the road: that oil company executive has not got any more of a clue than you do about HOW to extract more oil from 35,000 feet below the sea floor of a 10,000 foot deep sea and not blow themselves to Kingdom Come in the process.
But I do, and so do hundreds of thousands of men just like me.
And millions of men and women just like me in a hundred other fields, that know how to grow your food and fix your roads and unplug your drains and rig the electric lines and repair your car and on and on and on.
And we are rightly getting sick and tired of being bashed, mocked, hounded, persecuted and ridiculed as "deplorables", "bitter clingers", "racist white supremacists" and the rest of the endless litany of abuse.
So, no, I will not respond or do my small share or "stand together" in making the oil supply system increase production.
Your party and your leadership and your president were VERY vocal about killing off US oil and gas, with no regard whatsoever about the lives of the "deplorables" that got destroyed along the way.
And he did it, he kept his promise, so own it.
You got exactly what you wanted.
Regards,
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