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Wellstone ruled

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1. Interesting how Politics play the long game.
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 05:11 PM
Dec 2016

Sometime back,Mr.Obama closed some areas of the Arctic to drilling,and Exxon shut down their Rigs. That was Thanksgiving week last year,happened to be in Alaska visiting a sick Relative. Returned on Sunday the 27th,on our flight back to Denver were 150 just laid off Exxon workers. Some 400 hundred were laid off at Mid Day and given a one way ticket home and to catch their flight by Midnight that day. Sat next to one of the Drill Platform Pushers(Rig Boss),they shut everything down because of tensions between the US and Russia as to Territorial rights.

Irony was,the Russians had Exxon Drilling a few miles away. Like Trump once said,it's our Oil.

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