Few people in the northeast United States understand just how aggressive and hostile the culture of the Texas and Oklahoma oil and gas culture really is. They are a “say anything and do anything” crowd obessed to get what they want and once they do, they leave their messes behind for everyone else as they skip off to do damage in the next “better” oil or gas play.

In their country clubs and on their golf courses, the executives of the companies view everybody and everything as for sale and continue to justify whatever they do or want under the banner of the Divine Province of Manifest Destiny.

As more actual production data comes in its increasing clear shale gas is a money loser and its going to take much higher market prices to be economically viable. More than likely at such high market prices, it will remain an ongoing victim of its own price demand destruction of its use.

For those here who tout jobs and economic benefit, history has shown the oil and gas industry is nothing but an ongoing cycle of boom to bust. The United States is littered with virtually deserted and abandoned oil and gas boom towns all created on the pipedreams of industry jobs and development. None of it having been sustainable in the remotest sense of the word.

Mr. Bond knows of what he writes about. Let’s hope there are a lot more people up here like him before the Texas and Oklahoma oil and gas crowd turn the northeast U.S. into a giant cesspool of industrial wastes.