Episode Transcript: One of the questions I get asked most still is: “What is fracking?”  Fracking is not a drilling technique.  It is a COMPLETION technique. We’re drilling wells in exactly the same manner we have for over 100 years.  If frackin

Episode Transcript: Natural gas prices are ticking up, now that the consensus forecast is for another cold winter.  It’s funny how forecasters flip and flop, isn’t it?  At about the same time the CDC was saying there wouldn’t be an Ebola outbreak

Episode Transcript: If you hadn’t heard, Houston is BOOMING.  The city has been cashing in on the oil boom, and cranes are everywhere. In fact, the growth is so explosive, some are saying that Houston will soon surpass Chicago as the nation’s 3rd l

Episode Transcript: The reports keep rolling in.  Just in time for the holidays, major drillers are starting to hand out pink slips instead of holiday bonuses. It sure didn’t take long, either. For the last 5 or 6 years, the oil patch has been the sav

Episode Transcript: Did you see Halliburton’s 3rd quarter results?  70-percent increase in profits.   70-percent.  Heck, Apple was up about 12-percent and THRILLED based on hot iPhone-6 sales.  These days, not much is growing at 70-percent, especia

Episode Transcript: ICF International, a world-wide consulting and policy firm based in Fairfax, Virginia, released a report recently indicating that hydraulic fracturing saves U.S. consumers billions of dollars a year.  The estimate for 2013 was saving

Episode Transcript: Today’s report is a tribute to a giant in our industry, who has fallen silent.  Christophe de Margerie was the charismatic CEO of France’s oil giant, Total.  He was tragically killed in Moscow, when a drunken snowplow operator p

Episode Transcript: Jobs, jobs, jobs.  If you, or someone you know, needs a good job, have them look at the oil patch.  Places like Midland/Odessa in Texas, the Eagle Ford near San Antonio, or Williston, North Dakota.  There are lots of ways to make g

Episode Transcript: Now that the Republicans have control of the Senate again, I hope at least some legislation will start to flow to President Obama’s desk.  What he does with it will be predictable, but at least Debate will return to the halls of Co

Episode Transcript: President Obama is now officially a lame duck President.  I can only hope he doesn’t defiantly use his executive orders to keep bypassing the U.S. Constitution and legislate as a dictator 2 more years. The American people have spo