Is this author suggesting that the above companies are transporting crude oil and refined products illegally across the border? If not, then what is the problem with a wall? It will have a gate, won't it?
-PJ
Your instincts seem right on Junkie Too. Having read Oilprice.com for some years because they often publish articles that remind of the Marxist left dealing with nuclear power. Having had some first-hand experience with the better-informed Marxists like Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren I became skeptical and tried to find out who was behind them.
When the chief editor of a presumably business and financial journal has no public background there should be questions. When they repeatedly publish politically biased and misleading articles about energy sources, but hide behind a business and technology which abounds with petroleum specialists skepticism is warranted.
Oilprice.com cleverly conforms to the “inevitability” of “soft” energy, solar, wind, and the old shibboleth, increasing efficiency. Billions of dollars have been spent on energy propaganda, on political energy and environment divisions in colleges, on study after study, drawing from the same nonsense and depending upon the naivety most of the public who are vulnerable to such propaganda because they know little about the technology and have been indoctrinated over decades.
I couldn’t find who was funding oilprice, but there is so much money being disbursed by he left and its many foundations, oilprice.com, which seems to originate from a suburb of London. could be one guy, in a home office, who may get a stipend from the Natural Resources Defense Council or some similar operation, and maintains the illusion for many that oil is inevitably being replaced, along with coal, by environmentally benign “free” alternatives. It is a small part of an enormous industry. It helps to soften the ignorant who, in California, accept fraud sold as carbon credits that suck a bit more from what remains of productivity to improve the incomes of clever frauds like Al Gore of Kleiner Perkins, whose father’s career was sponsored by Lenin’s personal friend and oil magnate Armand Hammer. That is a fascinating story (read Edward Epstein’s articles and book), tying Gore, father and son, to all sorts of oil pay-to-play operations benefiting Hammer’s Oxydental Petroleum. Oilprice.com appears to be minor propaganda business.