Matt Simmons scares me. Not that he's a frightening man, he's not, in fact, he's a perfectly benign looking retired oil man. For the life of me I couldn't tell you exactly what he, or his firm Simmons & Company International does, save to say it involves oil and lots of money. In any event, his knowledge of the industry through more than four decades of being in it is unquestionable.

And that's what scares me. I've spoken to Matt a few times now. Most recently was last week, the week of May 24th. I was playing an excerpt from the "Dylan Ratigan" show on MSNBC on my daily syndicated radio show and the assertions were so shocking about the oil spill in the Gulf that I had to do something never before done on my show: call a former guest unannounced, without going through channels, just rang him up at home and asked him to go on in the next break. He graciously did.

It was then he told me that Top Kill would not work. It was then he told me that he believed we were all watching the wrong leak, that the major leak had to be seven miles away. He was led to that belief not by a trail of bread crumbs but the "orangish sludge" that "leads a path" directly to the oil[...]

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