It seems like the Minerals Management Service, the government oversight to the U.S. natural resources, is dropping the ball…to say the least.  A recent scandal has broken involving sex, sex toys, drugs, underhanded dealings, and all sorts of debauchery withing the MMS.  There are reports of cocaine and pot parties, and sex among the MMS and those in the oil industry.

The reason this matters is that the MMS watches over the 8 billion dollar leases on oil drilling in the U.S. Employees have been fooling around with those in the oil industry and taking bribes, gifts, etc.  thetimes.co.za is reporting that:

Between 2002 and 2006, Devaney said, nearly a third of the employees in the Rik programme received an array of gifts from Chevron Corp, Shell, Gary Williams Energy Corp and Hess Corp.

While many of the gifts were lunches and drinks, they also included golf outings, snowboarding rentals and lodging.

Two agency employees conceded they had romantic encounters with men from the industry. One had liaisons with a Shell Pipeline Co. employee and an oil scheduler for Chevron, one report noted. But she did not “think there was a reason to refuse herself from dealing with Shell or Chevron”.

Have you wondered why your gas prices are up?  It may just be because a few idiots at the MMS passed some favorable deals along to the oil industry.  Now we all have to pay for their folly.  Literally.

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