Imagine, if you will, a sack of fertilizer and a flask of wood alcohol, sitting at a bar. Through the entrance comes a streamlined ship of the sea, a proud and beautiful cargo cruiser of the waterways of the world. She’s come to drink away her sorrows at her long-standing relationship with the bad boy of energy, residual bunker fuel, known by his friends and enemies simply as resid.
Both the sack and the flask immediately set out to woo the vessel. And so they tell her their stories of how much better they would treat her and her sisters than resid would, how responsible they are, how long their own histories are. They tell her that while they are traditionally do not consort with beautiful marine vessels like her, instead having long-standing, non-monogamous relationships with fields and industrial plants, they would like to welcome her and her sisters into their…
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