The election of Ronald Reagan was the key moment in recent American history when we first chose as a nation to pretend that everything would be hunky-dory if we just crossed our fingers and wished hard enough for it to be so. By the time of the Gipper’s 1984 re-election campaign, the economy was “recovering” thanks to a big drop in oil prices resulting from the coming online of the world’s last great supergiant oil fields in the North Sea, Alaska and Mexico.

Bill Hicks wrote:Thanks again, pamela...you saved me from having to toot my on horn.

roccman wrote:

The election of Ronald Reagan was the key moment in recent American history when we first chose as a nation to pretend that everything would be hunky-dory if we just crossed our fingers and wished hard enough for it to be so. By the time of the Gipper’s 1984 re-election campaign, the economy was “recovering” thanks to a big drop in oil prices resulting from the coming online of the world’s last great supergiant oil fields in the North Sea, Alaska and Mexico.

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nice work Bill.

jcs44 wrote:Hi Bill. Just wanted to say I'll be reading your blog and glad you found your way to the OilAge- I always liked reading your posts back on LATOC. I hope you'll pop in and post here often too.