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Jonathan Sand:
He wanted these guys to produce less oil so that their wells would flow years longer and not ruin the fields. And that way they'd get all the oil there was to get out of the wells. Don't you get the idea? He was for conservation! Now, how can a guy be breaking laws when he's trying to save the natural resources of the country? He didn't know that he was doing anything that you might call noble; but, being one of the best oil men there is, he's got the right hunch about oil. He knows that it took billions of years to put it here and if we keep taking it at the rate we're going; why, before long, there won't be any oil left in the good old U.S.A. Won't be any left for him or men like him to break up into lube and fuel and gasoline so that people can get their stuff moved around in trucks. and so that you can light furnaces and homes and schoolhouses. If that time comes, what'll be the good of American schoolhouses, anyway? Cause what'll be the good of your two oceans? What are you gonna run airplanes and battleships on? Tomato soup?
He wanted these guys to produce less oil so that their wells would flow years longer and not ruin the fields. And that way they'd get all the oil there was to get out of the wells. Don't you get the idea? He was for conservation! Now, how can a guy be breaking laws when he's trying to save the natural resources of the country? He didn't know that he was doing anything that you might call noble; but, being one of the best oil men there is, he's got the right hunch about oil. He knows that it took billions of years to put it here and if we keep taking it at the rate we're going; why, before long, there won't be any oil left in the good old U.S.A. Won't be any left for him or men like him to break up into lube and fuel and gasoline so that people can get their stuff moved around in trucks. and so that you can light furnaces and homes and schoolhouses. If that time comes, what'll be the good of American schoolhouses, anyway? Cause what'll be the good of your two oceans? What are you gonna run airplanes and battleships on? Tomato soup?
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He wanted these guys to produce less oil
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so that their wells would flow years longer and not ruin the fields
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That way they'd get all the oil there was to get
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Don't you get the idea He was for conservation
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How can he be breaking laws when he's trying to save the resources of the country
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He didn't know that he was doing anything that you might call noble
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but being one of the best oil men there is he's got the right hunch about oil
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He knows that it took billions of years to put it here
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and if we keep taking it at this rate
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before long there won't be any oil left in the good old U S A
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Won't be any left for him or men like him
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to break up into lube and fuel and gasoline
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so that people can get their stuff moved around in trucks
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and so that you can light furnaces and homes and schoolhouses
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If that time comes what'll be the good of American schoolhouses anyway
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What'll be the good of your two oceans
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What are you gonna run airplanes and battleships on Tomato soup
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Movie Summary
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
