Re: Authority of the marketplace?

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 04:18 PM 7/19/01, Steve Sloan wrote:
>Dan Minette wrote:
>
> > (I cannot possibly see how we can use up all the shale
> > in the world...shale is sorta like the spam of geology.)
>
>So, does that make oil the slimy mucus goo the spam
>floats in? ;-)
>
>Oh no, now I'm picturing tiny little derricks built on
>spam lids, drilling through the aluminum crust to find
>the precious fluid. Of course, they'll have a harder
>job pumping it out than real oilmen, since there's not
>enough pressure in the can to cause gushers...
>:-)


OTOH, the other type of spam is all about pressure (high pressure sales, 
that is).


--Ronn! :)

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