So what about the CNG scam now?

October 16, 1:29 PMOklahoma City Conservative ExaminerChristopher Arps

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OKPNS.COM (Oklahoma City) Viewed in retrospect, the content is hilariously outrageous, but this video from August shows an obviously uncomfortable Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon pimping a report by the so-called American Clean Skies Foundation (funded entirely by Chesapeake) that shows how making Chesapeake more money is good for America.

Enjoy the laugh as you think back on the good old days when people actually listened to energy con artists!

AP: Chesapeake Energy gets facility for $460M

Reuters: UPDATE 1-Chesapeake gets $460 mln in credit, shares bounce

WSJ: BP Weighs Chesapeake Deal

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As our readers know, we’ve chronicled the ongoing energy con artistry that ran amuck over the past year, fueled by record high prices and the anti-intellectual global warming agenda set by the man-bear-pig himself, Al Gore.

There’s only one problem: the atmosphere that enabled the con artists to be taken seriously has evaporated. Funds for the smelly hippie global warming hoax are drying up, and the silly Pickens-McClendon agenda is slipping away as petroleum prices plummet.

“Nobody’s going to be listening to these hacks pushing their pricey gimmicks at $60 dollars a barrel. You can get the gullible to listen to fantastic tales of propeller farms and CNG conversions at $120, but that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone,” one industry analyst tells OKPNS.

“Speaker Benge drank the Kool-Aid, and he must be feeling pretty silly right now. So at least for the present, it will be much harder to buy people at the rate they’ve been doing it.