Which is completely ignored by the oil companys.
They don’t want to drill in ANWR, only morons want to drill there.

An area like ANWR, where oil is known and accessible, is off limits. Opening up areas off the atlantic cost where it is not nearly as rich is a game.

Fact is, artists who claim they don’t need to be business-savvy drive me frickin’ crazy (there are a few like that who reside in Tacoma), to make it in the arts you have to be MORE business savvy, not less.

ct7 – yes, teaching at the University part-time is part of my job(s) – the other part involves finding money to pay me and my employees (independent contractors usually) to make art and then producing it. I did have one full-time paycheck from a Uni for four years but got tired of the politics of promotion & tenure.

Your appropriation of the quote by George Bernard Shaw demonstrates an ignorance of the context in which it was originally used. averageJoseph’s attempt at piling on doesn’t even deserve this sentence in response.

When was there NO regulation?.

Annnnd:

Just because you have earned a paycheck from someone else in a soul-sucking job doesn’t mean you know shinola about business. Until you have run your own business, or supported yourself as an independent contractor for many, many years, the fact that you are driven by income as a sole motivator doesn’t make you business-oriented – just mercenary.

I could take that as personally as your take on my take on you take on… never mind. But I think you are aware enough that I operate my own business, so no “soul-sucking” here. What you may not know is I have been doing so longer than you.

And yeah, the money’s nice when the money’s nice, but each time we do a job we endeavor to produce a product that we’re very proud of, that’s our first priority. And then there’s the intangibles of being able to provide good jobs to good employees – the whole “family” atmosphere thing and such. In other words, there’s way more to subjecting oneself to the responsibilities, risks, and consequences of owning your own business than being “driven by income as a sole motivator”.

I can think of a lot of other “professions” I could have chosen if money were the “sole motivator”.

And those who can’t be taught, attack teachers.

Oil and gas, as an industry, pay the second highest % in taxes. The deductions they get are not special. If you are so smart and business oriented, why can’t you see through the BS? Why, a few months ago, did you fall hook, line, and sinker for the ‘we export crude’ argument when it is obviously refined products no where near our consumption or import level?