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Rick Smead

I graduated from the University of Maryland in mechanical engineering in 1970�six months late because otherwise engineering could have made me miss the 60s. Joined the natural gas industry by accident, and have had �positions of increasing responsibility� at Washington Gas Light, Tenneco Inc. (multinational conglomerate that�s now a muffler shop in Chicago), the Coastal Corporation (Oscar Wyatt, one of the models for J.R. Ewing), and El Paso Corp. (intensely disliked in California in 2001).

But of course I was the nice one, was at every major crossroads in the evolution of the natural gas industry, to its high-profile love/hate relationship with the public today, and its global recognition as the best-structured energy market in the world�unfortunately that�s damning with faint praise.

Started consulting right before our 40th, in 2004, at Navigant. I was �the guy� who announced shale gas to the world in 2008 (introduced by Rahm Emanuel), and have dedicated my career to making the producers, the anti-frack folks, the government, and everyone who likes clean air and cold beer to act like adults�while trying to make some money in the process.

Now with RBN Energy, a 12-person firm that analyzes and teaches stuff around gas, oil, and stuff like propane, and is regularly called by Jim Cramer on CNBC �the best source of expert energy information in the world.� Would be wonderful if anyone liked Cramer.

Went GW for a law degree, with this smart-ass guy named Jim Kidney sitting behind me and frequently correcting the professor. Active in the Energy Bar Association and its Charitable Foundation, where I get to suck up to lawyers because after all I AM a consultant and expert witness.

Had a practice marriage to a Colorado girl in the 70s, then married Paula in 1990. She came with two kids, then we had John, who just got his architecture degree and his first �real� job. We have three gorgeous granddaughters, Violet, Maggie, and Vera, who fill up our senses.

I live in Houston, where we gave you Ted Cruz and Rick Perry. You sent one of them back yesterday, but PLEASE keep Ted and keep him away from any buttons or sharp objects. And don't let him talk.

Have found myself (remember I was a Goldwater guy) strangely feeling the Bern (sorry, Roger).

Let�s do this thing!

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