I’ll be out of Los Angeles May 4th through 8th: I’m travelling to Houston for an energy conference. (Well, for me it’s a fact-finding mission. For them, it’s a conference.)
The API will be paying for my airplane ticket and hotel. (And probably throwing a little food at me as well—not, one hopes, in the most literal sense, though one never knows what people will do when they are pushed to the limits.)
This is the second time that the folks at API have assisted me in understanding energy production—without the slightest hint that they would like to guide how I blog about energy as some sort of quid pro quo. One almost gets the feeling that they are turning to New Media because their story is not being told properly in all the MSM outlets. Almost.
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Alternatively, they might be asking me along because I bring out all the dumb questions that bloggers from The Oil Drum, Q and O, and New Energy and Fuel wouldn’t think to ask, because those people aren’t, um, right-brain-dominant enough. (Sample Joy question for the technical people at the oil fields in San Joaquin Valley: “what material is used to line the oil wells themselves?” Sample Joy question at dinner that night: “couldn’t ethanol work, if it were made of switch grass or similar materials? I mean, couldn’t it? Okay. Fine. Then we’ll use methanol. Now get off my back.”)
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