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LeftInTX

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2. It looks the Onion, but it isn't....

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2013, 03:23 AM

Apr 2013

How awful. At least when they show oil wells in Texas, they like to show one arm bandits in pretty fields with blue bonnets and cattle surrounding them, to soften the image.

This pic is about as pleasant as showing the BP oil spill and calling it, "The miracle of oil".

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