Matthew Roy Simmons - Obituary from my local paper

[Maine-ah]

http://knox.villagesoup.com/people/announcement/obits/matthew-roy-simmons/345668

ROCKPORT — Matthew Roy Simmons died Aug. 8, 2010, from a heart attack at his summer cottage on North Haven.

(full obit at link)

[HillbillyBob]

1. Who? and what is so important about him

could you give a little more info? Why should i blindly follow your link?

[Maine-ah]

2. he served as energy adviser to George W. Bush.

others here found it important enough.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4497122

[dgibby]

4. Matthew Simmons

was a mover and shaker in the Oil Industry. He's the one who kept saying that there was another, larger rupture in the BP pipeline of the blownout well in the Gulf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Simmons

[Maine-ah]

5. I know.

I posted another local article about him a couple weeks before he died.

[kestrel91316]

6. What - is your google finger paralyzed?? That's what I do when somebody talks about

someone I know nothing about - I GOOGLE THEM.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Guess because he wrote the 2005 book "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the

World Economy" questioned the sustainability of current levels of Middle East oil production. And he founded the Ocean Energy Institute, aiming to help supplant the world's fossil fuel reserves with energy from the oceans.