Posts Tagged ‘pirates’

0 Jan 19 @ 10:58am by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Global Energy, Risk Strategy

The Analogy Strikes Back

Given the popularity of last week’s post linking natural gas to Star Wars, I figured I would try to be a one-trick pony squeeze as much mileage out of this one as I could. Since some readers were flabbergasted at the omission of certain characters, here are some new analogies, with the emphasis on the crude complex. » read more

0 Oct 19 @ 11:18pm by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, Natural Gas

Burrito bites

This is an early and abridged set of burrito bites, but I figured that I had unearthed just enough interesting tidbits to justify pushing ‘em out to you glorious folk. Enjoy! » read more

1 Oct 6 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, Natural Gas

Energy! You Goonie!

Oh my gosh, I hope this picture brings you as much amusement as it does me. With the return of piracy into the mainstream media in the last week, I have been reminiscing about the most fantastic of movies - The Goonies – and how it is inevitably tied back to energy. So here’s some truffle-shuffle-tastic insights to take us from crude to natty to Mikey to Mouth to Data to Brand to Andy to Stef, and to of course…Chunk (Captain Chunk!).

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