re: Billy Bob Thornton Exposes Green Energy in Landman Scene

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I think he said the patch workers made $180,000 so not sure what a landman makes, $500,000???

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A VP of Land at a company could make around that as their total comp (salary plus bonus). But Billy Bob's character specifically....probably not unless he's getting a bunch of overrides on the wells he secures locations, pipelines and roads for.

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I might could put up with some crap for that much but it would probably take at least that to do what he does.

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Yeah, you could theoretically be on call 24/7 in case of emergencies, or a pissed off rancher barrels into your location pointing threatening to shoot folks on site. But the show is obviously overdramatized. The surface landman ain't putting on a firesuit, grabbing a wrench out his truck, and shutting off an ignited high pressure gas line.

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But the show is obviously overdramatized. The surface landman ain't putting on a firesuit, grabbing a wrench out his truck, and shutting off an ignited high pressure gas line.

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Yeah - I figured that was a bit over the top. Plus, why not have a 2 inch schedule 40 PVC about 4 ft long as a cheater? Might even toss in a bit of WD40 or penetrating oil and wait a couple of minutes way off from the fire. No sparks and certainly no crushed pinky fingers.

This is Taylor Sheridan. Until he has something that bombs, he writes what he wants.

In this case he's completely right

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LOL at China and India, they are the world’s worst polluters. That should,tell you all you need to know. They are also,the two countries that benefitted the most when manufacturing left the US.

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If I were breathing in the polluted soup they do around their large cities every day, I’d be tempted to believe we’re messing up the planet too.

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Only thing I disagree with is I think the real number is we have about 400 years of supply left not 120

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And new deposits are constantly being discovered.

Nuclear fusion will overtake fossils for electricity production at some point but who knows about fuel. I thought hydrogen was the next big thing but it's all but disappeared. Battery tech will probably evolve in the next couple decades to the point that range won't be an issue. Once it comes online, ASI will figure out energy and fuel pretty quickly, I'd imagine.

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I've enjoyed the first two episodes of Landman but they don't have to use such foul language full time.

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If tittays offend you, you might want to skip Episode 3

He's more of a classical liberal, supports universal healthcare and taxing the evil corporations and the evil rich people to provide more services for the common man, typical wealth redistribution stuff, but he isn't down with all the trend-of-the-week woke shite or pissing away money on hundreds of billions of dollars of bullshite. He's basically a left-leaning populist. It's quite possible he voted for Trump but just as likely he didn't. He's smart enough not to say.

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If tittays offend you, you might want to skip Episode 3

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How have you seen Ep 3?

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I think the real number is we have about 400 years of supply

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Nobody knows, but the likelihood is that it’s a replenishing resource. Good chance it never runs out.