But if you read Eugene Kane, you'd be hard pressed to know it:

BP wants us to believe, all of a sudden, they have to shut down operations because of corroding pipes.
OOOPS!!
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Sorry, I don't buy it. Something's up, and it has been for some time. Nobody gets caught unaware about a national crisis level oil shortage, not in this day and age. Some folks aren't talking about the real deal.

So according to his theory, one oil company is just kind enough to sabotage its facilities so that all its competitors can make more money from the ensuing rise in gas prices, while it makes less money since it has less oil to sell.  How do you envision this working Eugene?  Did all the big oil execs go to a nice hotel in the Caribbean and draw lots to see who got to take one for the team?

I'm guessing that nowhere in the job description for Journal Sentinel Columnist does the line, "Has a strong grasp of common sense" appear does it?