then im gonna start drillin' on my property, refine it in my back yard, then pipe it to the front yard and open up "Metalhead's Gas & Bait Shop" (with a 20% discount to Piscatorial Pursuits members of course)


...now ive got the theme song from the beverly hillbillies running through my mind... The Ballad of Jed Clampett

Come and listen to a story about a man named Metalhead.
A poor fisherman, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.
...well, you know the rest of it...


but in all seriousness, i dont suffer from the "not in my backyard" mentality that a lot of so-called environmentalists do. i would much rather have "big oil" drilling on U.S. soil so they can be watched closely to make sure that the proper environmental controls are in place and being used. the oil wells in africa and the middle east and other various 3rd world countries have almost no environmental controls and can do much more harm.

im a big believer in "think globally, act locally" and i just dont give a rats ass about displacing a handfull of cariboo in the arctic. as you know, oil is non-renewable and will run out sooner or later, so its only a matter of time before we tap that first well. that is the reality, like it or not.