Champion the rule of capture of the wildcatter. A very evangelical etiology, if you will. One of them was robert kerr, a more hopeful optimistic positive kind of wildcatter if you will as oklahomas governor and senator in the 1940s and 50s, he labored to meet independent oils needs and carried the mantdle for the dispo sesed, although a wealthy dispo sesed. Giving small producers the protection they deserved. Whats interesting here, too, is how kerr very prominent Southern Baptist was able to fold his kind of politics and his interests in the protection of independent oilmen with his faith in the ability of individuals to approach scripture and christ on their own terms much as the same way they approached subsurface minerals. There was also a harder edge to this wild cattle christianity that emerged in the 70s. Connecting the fear of peek oil, the fear that america was losing its ability to control its most valued resource, losing that to the middle east, to saudi arabia. That took th