Oilfield Operations Pillows

'OK, what's the first thing we need to capture in our Job Safety Analysis?' 'Don't tick off TINY!'

Late Stage Capitalism and the Biosphere Engage in Some Meaningful Dialogue...

Spot the difference.

(oil - petroleum - gushing out of inkwell)

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

"I warned you not to use that club...now look, you struck oil!"

'The good news is we've discovered a vast new oil resource. The bad news is we need a space ship to get there.'

'This is the BEST well we've dug!!'

Got stuck in Iraqi oil, Unca Sam?

'Let's call him lucky!'

"Now I'm just cleaning up."

US Energy Needs.

Snake in the grass...

"Come to think of it, I can't think of the last time I saw a monarch around here."

Libyan Crude Oil

Impatient Oil Drillers LTD.

"Mr. Bush, this is Vytautas Landsbergis, in Vilnius. Guess what."

'No way! To fund health, education and welfare, we'd be forced to tax oil companies!'

Car Breast-Feeding

Take me to your leader. . .

"It really was a no-brainer, selling drilling rights at the North Pole."

Ethanol and foreign oil.

National Oil Reserve (Formerly National Wildlife Reserve).

'I don't care if you are the CEO of a large oil company, you can't claim your soul as a business loss.'

'Well number 34 has run dry and is now pumping fossils.'

'I'm trying to turn gold into gasoline.'

Keystone XL

There's no real oil emergency...

Low tech tech friendly solution to the gulf oil spill?

'Maybe we should've let that one pass.'

Energy trap.

Acme Petroleum, since 1925 and 9/10.