Is There a Reason Matthew Simmons Died?

John R. Houk
© August 10, 2010

Ok it is Conspiracy Theory time. Matthew Simmons has died officially of a heart attack in his hot tube in his Maine home. Now I have to be honest in that I never heard of Mr. Simmons. What is the significance of Simmons’ death? Simmons is the man of respected opinions (or at least was respected) that divulged to the world that Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves are way smaller than the Saudi’s would like anyone to know. This is not good news for the big oil corporations and the global governments that have made oil and its refinery the life blood of the global economy.

If Simmons is correct then a panic to search for alternate fuel sources would go into Manhattan Project mode. If the oil corporations are not part of a rush to save lifestyles as the world knows it, then the oil corporations would go broke. That is undoubted a disturbing number in the trillions (I’ll let the Conspiracy Theorists verify that) of dollars.

You have heard that “knowledge is power” right? Well believe me in the 21st century knowledge on how to keep the ownership of money is more powerful than knowledge. If Simmons had developed a large bandwagon following it would not only crimp the profits and power of oil corporations it would lead to corruption of powerful politicians on a global scale as they were bribed by a very powerful oil lobby to either keep oil the life blood of the world or would be bribed to slow down alternate sources of scientific discovery in order for oil corporations to use their current trillions of dollars to embark on their own patent for a viable alternate to oil energy. Then of course there are the otherwise third rate petro-nations that currently have immense monetary power and influence because of oil reserves – ahem, like Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi oil bankruptcy may have two affects on other petro-nations. One affect is that the other petro-nations (like Iran and Venezuela) might utilize the new market demand to increase the market price of oil and utilize their oil to blackmail the West accept political agendas that normally would be withstood by the Western Powers (primarily the USA). The second affect is that fear of losing future petro-dollars may encourage the petro-nations to unite behind the Saudis forming a cabal to increase the control of the access to petroleum to prolong their potential combined power block to maintain petro-economic power as long as possible. Thus the utilization of this power to develop their own scientific oil alternatives (doubtful) or to acquire the kind of weaponry that would definitely send the world into the Third Global Military Conflict that many might have the label of WWIII could be embarked upon. The objective of military adventurism would be similar to the reasons that old Imperial Japan started to create an empire beyond the shores of Japan. Japan had become a very powerful military nation by the 1930’s. Couple this with a sense of destiny of Japanese superiority; Japan needed greater resources to solidify their geopolitical position. The number one resource needed was oil and control of sea lanes. Manchuria, China had the metal resources to build with and Indonesia had the oil.

These were the days that the Chinese Emperor was a powerless figurehead that received the boot by two competing reform ideologies: The Nationalist Chinese who sought modernization but not necessarily democracy and the Communist who sought a Marxist utopia Chinese-style. The point here is China was ruled mostly by regional war lords that would subscribe to the Nationalists or the Communists or make an attempt at maintaining a war lord fiefdom. China was ripe for Japanese picking.

British dominions in the Pacific and the American Navy were the only serious threat to keep Japan out of Indonesia. Australia was independent at this time but the British Monarchy was still the monarch of Australia.

The Petro-nations may feel they are forced to militarize to protect their National (Regional) Interests. In the Middle East this enters the intra-Islamic conflict between Sunnis and Shias. That conflict boils down to Shia-Iran vs. Sunni-Muslim nations that have been armed first by the old Soviet Union and now with American technology. Those nations of note I believe are Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. One can see the concerns that would occur with a nuclear armed Iran.

Now back to Matthew Simmons who is reporting Saudi oil fields are depleting sooner than believed. It is all about oil. Simmons may have infuriated the corporate oil cabal by attacking British Petroleum’s off shore oil well blowing up allowing incredible amounts of oil into the Gulf of America. Simmons maintained that BP knew of the danger and did nothing about it out of greed for profit. Also Simmons criticized BP’s efforts to stop the undersea gusher predicting if BP is forced to clean up the environmental effects of the spill the oil corporation would go bankrupt.

Adding BP to the list of people and nations that wished to bury Simmons’ findings about Saudi oil reserves Simmons’ death because more than a footnote and emerges as a Conspiracy Theory.

Was Matthew Simmons’ hot tub heart attack by natural causes or was it helped along by clandestine forces? If clandestine forces, then who or what would feel the most threatened to carry out an assassination and make it look like a heart attack?

Hmm … I like what Tony Newbill wrote in his email alert to me: “I Love a Good Conspiracy Theory.”

Here are the three links sent to me by Newbill that inspired my thoughts:

CREEPY AND SUSPICIOUS: Oil expert Matthew Simmons dies in Maine hot tub “accident”

Oil guru Matthew Simmons dies in Maine

Matthew Simmons Discusses BP's Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico

JRH 8/10/10