From: Douglas Grandt answerthecall@me.

com
Subject: How long will it take low prices to collapse the Oil & Gas Industry?
Date: May 10, 2017 at 7:03 PM
To: Joel Brubaker (Sen. Capito) Joel_Brubaker@capito.senate.gov

Dear Joel Brubaker,

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Last Thursday, I visited your office and delivered the attached one-page Twenty-one
Questions That Need To Be Addressed By The Senate Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources dated May 4, one copy for you and one for Senator Capito.
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The original purpose of this email was to follow-up and implore you to respond YAY or
NAY as to whether you and Senator Capito actually read through the list of questions,
and encourage you to reply with your thoughts.
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Yesterday, the Oil&Gas Journal published EIA: World liquid fuels supply growth
forecast higher in latest STEO (Bit.ly/OGJ9May17). Their assessment of the U.S.
Energy Information Administration (EIA) latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO)
adds urgency to my concern that there should be governmental oversight to Oil & Gas
producers and refiners as they face an uncertain economic future with plausible debt
default, insolvency and bankruptcy.
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Will the Oil & Gas industry behave in the Public Interest and National Interest as it
exercises its fiduciary duty in their attempts to remain viable businesses?
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Please read the article and my May 4 list of 21 questions, and please respond.
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Do you agree we must assure the industry acts in the Public and National Interest?
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Sincerely yours,
Doug Grandt
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