Dem ‘Influencer’ Picks Fight With Actual Oil And Gas Experts, Gets Torched… Twice!

The battle in Iran is two things at once. There’s the actual conflict itself, and the people who come between the data and the public to shape public opinion on those stories.

The conflict has had some casualties, but in terms of checking objectives off the to-do list, it’s hard to imagine what a more successful campaign might look like, especially against a recalcitrant foe that thinks dying in battle gets you a laminate pass into heaven. (Something something, 72 Virginians)

Although the fighting is thousands of miles away, the real battle fills the space between what happened, and when folks back home process the news about what happened. Decisions are made about what to feature, what to leave out. What lens to look through each event through. Whose claims to believe.

Even something like the fuel depot that burned in Tehran, do we view it as a horrifying step backward, or brining the terrorized citizens of Iran one step closer to being liberated from a regime that has raped and murdered their daughters, and intentionally blinded women as a form of punishment? What’s real? What’s old footage? What’s AI? Which videos are from the citizens, which are from supporters of the regime?

Partisans are using this as an opportunity (so close to the midterms) as an opportunity to dunk on both Trump and the consequences of his polices.

It’s hard to find a more reliable parrot for the left’s narrative than Brian and Ed Krassenstein.

The first volley of the flame war started on March 7, when one of the vertically-challenged influencers decided he was an expert on oil and gas. He didn’t write because he cares about the issue. He just sees a cudgel he can use to whack Trump over the head. His tweet included the sentence “People just don’t understand how big of a mistake. This really was by Trump. He vastly miscalculated the tools that Iran has to harm the US economy.”

The US Oil and Gas association did not find his contribution to the global conversation on gas prices helpful or compelling.

Hello.

It’s important we all stay in our specific lanes of expertise.

We respectfully never comment about your specific lane of expertise which is:

“My Life As A Garden Gnome.”

We ask you show us the same respect please…. https://t.co/uLkCRqGMnz

— US Oil & Gas Association (@US_OGA) March 7, 2026

Then along came Monday. The markets opened up, and some of the markets in the East saw pressure in the port of Hormuz and got (to borrow one of the President’s favourite words) ‘yippy’.

The Prawn thought he had the last laugh, and rushed to spike the football.

That smug grin didn’t last long.

Here’s a taste of the Oil and Gas Association’s other work in recent days, (I need them after scrolling Brian’s timeline).

Some perspective for their optimism:

Some history for the haters on the left…

And their consequences today…

But don’t worry. We can have confidence that things will work out.

After all, Cramer has spoken:

In reality, we can all look at trends and think we know how things might play out. But until it happens, it’s anyone’s guess. That said, some guesses are actually better informed than others.

For the moment, it looks like we could have a positive outcome from the high-risk-high-reward gamble Trump took in Iran, not just in stopping a regime that was hellbent on creating nuclear weapons it could use to intimidate (and likely kill) its neighbors, and funding proxies to kill in the name of an ideology. But bigger still, it looks like there’s room for a reset that will take a different form than the regime did.

Since Iran was the result of a hostile takeover by radical Marxists and islamists in an otherwise pro-Western state, there is real reason to hope that whatever new form the country takes might abandon the ideas that drove regional instability for 47 years.

Fuel prices, while important in the short-term thinking of reelection efforts, are small potatoes if the region where we spent the first quarter of this century sending our young men and women to fight and die chooses to work with its neighbors instead of against them.

But any time human decisions are involved in an outcome… there’s always a wildcard.