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🛢️ EPA Throws "Gold Bars Off the Titanic"
Billionaire of the Week: Sid Richardson
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December 12th, 2024
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EPA Official Admits Funneling Billions into Climate Groups
EPA is pouring billions into climate activist groups.
The move is an “insurance policy” against the Trump presidency.
Project Veritas caught an EPA official admitting it on hidden camera.
BREAKING: @EPA Advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump is Funneling Billions to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic”
“It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.”
“Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas)
2:56 PM • Dec 3, 2024
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This week’s billionaire feature is on Sid Richardson (featured below).
If you like hearing about his story, check out the Life of an Oilman episode on Clint Murchison - Sid Richardson’s best friend.
In Life of an Oilman, Adam Oxsen reads a biography of an oilman, and shares their story.
Some loom large and have a shining legacy. Others have been largely forgotten. But what they all did was enable an energy revolution that built our modern world.
This is Life of an Oilman.
Billionaire of the Week: Sid Richardson
The Broke Driller
Sid Richardson had an early fate similar to that of many other tycoons.
He left school early to start work in the industry.
He began from the bottom and rose to the top.
On the way up, from supply salesman through oil scout to oil driller, he got hit by the Great Depression.
Hard.
In 1921, Richardson, who had partnered with Clint Murchison and was doing quite well, lost almost everything.
Instead of lying low and waiting for the crisis to blow over, he started borrowing.
“I must be the richest one between us, because I owe more money than you do. They’ve got paper of mine floating all the way to London England.”
-Sid Richardson
— Ryan Lundeen (@lundeen_ne)
4:25 PM • Sep 22, 2024
By 1934, he owed around $1 million, which was no small potatoes for those times…
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Tweet of the Day
Seems applicable after EPA wunderboy’s Titanic gold bar comment…
Climate change protests are going to be a real problem next year because the Inflation Reduction Act created multibillion dollar slush fund to steer EPA money to left wing 501c3’s
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando)
4:00 PM • Dec 10, 2024
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