Given that I am in the industry with an insiders view I'd say you are the one coming off quite ignorant and emotional. Here's atip for you. With each passing year each reservoir found is usually smaller and more difficult to get to, hence, more costly.
“Given that I am in the industry?”
For somebody who is ignorant of the percentage & volume of domestic oil that has been drilled in America for less than $20 a barrel over the past 38 years, I’d say you are in the wrong industry and overpaid! LMAO