Forbes: Often, when I speak to energy industry groups, Im asked what oil companies can do to improve their public image. My response: sell iPads. It usually gets a laugh.
After recent events in Pennsylvania, though, I may need to revise my quip: no free pizza. Unfortunately, that has been the response of a major oil company to a well explosion last week near Bobtown, in the southwestern corner of the state.
Residents told the Philadelphia Daily News they were awakened shortly before 7 a.m. by the...