Whiskey and Gunpowder

Byron King and I, plus two other strapping twenty-something Agora Financial editors and Byron’s two children, recently traveled to Titusville, Pa., at the kind invitation of one of our Whiskey readers.

Byron is an old oil field hand, been there – done that. But the rest of us wanted to see the Pennsylvania oil patch from the ground up. And did we ever! We were out in the wild woods, home to black bear and brown bobcat, stomping our way from one old oil well to another. What a trip!
And once you understand how hard it is to get oil out of the ground, you will never feel quite the same sense of bliss when you waste precious gasoline while sitting in your car idling in traffic. Come to think of it, maybe a few of our politicians ought to visit the oil patch and see the future. That’ll sober them up – maybe. Meanwhile, we give you