If you work in the oil and gas industry, or know someone who does...... (full disclosure: I am employed by a large oil and gas company)
You understand just how wrong-headed Chris Tomlinson is in his thinking here:
Responsibility and entitlement to public lands debated at CERA this week. Chris Tomlinson, HoustonChronicle.com ($$$)
It's been clear since his start with the Chronicle that Tomlinson doesn't understand the industries he's covering and, in most cases, takes a hostile view of the people that are working in them.
Then again, there are enough experts in Houston that cover these things that it's probable a 'business columnist' is an archaic position. Like most of the Chron's opinion section, they would be better served cutting the column and hiring another reporter or 3 to cover the energy sector.
I know, this won't happen but I think the Chron would have a better product if it did.
