Re: Really Big Oil

[Gar Lipow <gar.lipow@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Which leads me to state the corollary of the (alleged) Samuel Langhorne
> Clemens quote "...lies, damn lies, and statistics".
>
> "Figures don't lie, but liars do figure."

Another Mark Twain* quote: "A half truth is a whole lie".  Which can
be done as easily with words as numbers. Which in turn makes those
both the "lies" and "figures" quotes half truths.

*I  refer to Mark Twain rather than Sam Clemens. Twain was the name
most of his work was published under; the  Twain persona was an
important  part of his writing style. Towards the end of the 19th
century, Shaw wrote a letter to Mark Twain, explaining that he
addressed  Mark  Twain and not Samuel Clemens because he did not know
the second fellow.