Better not be bragging about cheap gas or this guy is gonna get ya!

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Crude oil prices continue to drop. This means in the next several days, the price of gasoline at the pump will be coming down even more. While this will be good news to most of you, I would ask that you do not plaster all over Facebook how happy you are that gas prices are down. Many people in our part of the country have lost their jobs due to the oil glut created by OPEC, and this Christmas will be a very bare one for them. My son lost his job and has moved 400 miles away, with my granddaughters, in order to find work. MANY others have been even less fortunate, losing not only their jobs, but their cars, and even the very homes that they live in.
Think about it in these terms........If you are a woman, and you marry your husband at age 25. You give him 2.7 children and the very best years of your life. Then, at age 40, that rotten bastard decides to trade you in for a DIFFERENT 25 year old. Your hard work, your dedication, your youth, are spent now, and some new hottie is reaping the fruits of your ex's salary, while you are relegated to a 12 year old mini-van, running the pre-teens to soccer practice, while holding down two piece of shite jobs just to pay for a manicure once every other month.....Well, THAT is the way an oilfield man feels. He gave up many things in his life to provide fuel for the masses. He missed half of his kids ball games. He missed birthdays, church plays, and multiple Christmases, so YOU would have gas for your car, and natural gas to power the power plants that turn the lights on in your house. And now, for all his hard work and dedication, he is summarily put out to pasture because some Saudi king has all the gold plated Rolls Royces that he can drive and decides to drive the competition out of business, because it's fun to watch the mice jump when he says "cat".
So, when you save $20 at the pump this Christmas, just remember that some oilfield families won't have a damn bowl of fruit from Santa, so please, don't rub our noses in it.

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My fuel bill is exponentially larger than the average person, as my commute is nearly 400 miles, round trip. So my gas cost is WAY lower. I am glad for that, but the way some, otherwise seemingly intelligent people around here act, and speak, oilfield workers are getting their comeuppance with all these layoffs. And nothing is further from the truth. The VAST majority if oilfield workers are hard working, paycheck to paycheck, family men.

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