The oil industry has a lot of different areas. Most Upstream types won't know too much about refining, and vice-versa. I am a refining guy about to transition into an upstream job. So, part of what I am doing right now is trying to learn as much as I can about Upstream operations. The way I view this site, and the reason I started posting here in the first place, is that it is a place to share knowledge and to learn. However, you took the opportunity not to say "I disagree", but instead to belittle me personally. Why you felt the need to do that from your anonymous perch is something I simply can't know.

I agreed with your numbers on ethanol and took, and still do vehement exception to how you say oil "markets," which you continually argued not with public facts, but saying you had inside information

What I was doing was a favor to you. You would probably acknowledge that I do know some things that a layman would not know about the oil industry. Yet when I tried to help you answer a question - and I did have first hand information on some of this - you simply chose to disregard it and blow me off. That's your problem, but I won't ever try to answer another of your inquiries.

Now, you put up on a post information that anyone who has looked into a limited about how reserve numbers are kept knows it not to be any surprise at all. So why don't you try fessing up instead of people saying they're attacking you personally.

Why then, do you think some people even in this thread are saying "Those numbers can't be right." For me, the numbers were surprising. Just like an upstream guy might be surprised at how much energy it takes to refine a barrel of oil. However, if he did express surprise, I certainly would not feel the need to belittle him or suggest that this is common knowledge. The fact is, those numbers surprised quite a few people. You can see that someone expressed surprise in my blog. You can see surprise expressed in this thread. Surprise has been expressed in e-mails. So, your comments about this being pretty common knowledge ring pretty hollow with me. The thread has also generated a pretty good discussion, which sad to say you have not contributed substantively to.

I've learned a lot of things on this site and its a very important issue, people deserve to be able get the best information possible and not "listen to me I'm oil company employee," and you do that all the time.

I am starting to think you don't have an honest bone in your body. Show me a single example of where I have done that. Please link to the discussion, or admit that you are being dishonest. I went out of my way once to try to find out some information for you, and this is the thanks I get. But just know that you will never get even the most basic information from me ever again.