[chrisser]

The sudden appearance over one of the hottest oil plays in the nation, he suspects, may mean the aliens stopped in to gas up

It would be hilarious if the power source that eventually enabled interstellar flight ended up to be petroleum based.

[Brookhaven]

They don’t need oil. They’re just trying to warn us about the dangers of fracking.

Fracking contaminates the water supply. If humans drink the contaminated water, it causes severe digestion problems (aliens are unable to properly digest human beings that have been contaminated by fracking water).