there will be blood (or oil)

"When Hamm talks, politicians listen. He is, according to the Forbes list, the 35th-richest American, worth an estimated $10 billion—more than William Koch, T. Boone Pickens, and David Rockefeller Sr. combined—"

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/harold-hamm-continental-resources-bakken-mitt-romneyhttp://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/harold-hamm-continental-resources-bakken-mitt-romney

"Battles between ranchers and oilmen might sound like relics of the Wild West—the stuff of films such as There Will Be Blood—but in North Dakota, they're all too current. Continental beat other oil companies to the punch by signing more leases and pumping oil faster and more aggressively than anyone.

But in its rush to cash in, the company has sometimes thwarted environmental laws, endangered workers, and overwhelmed small towns with more people and problems than they can handle."

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There Will Be Blood, based on an Upton Sinclair book, is based on Edward Doheny



"Word has been received here that Freeman Bloodgood, ninety-two, formerly of Conesville, near Middleburgh, is dead at State College, N. M. Mr. Bloodgood moved to New Mexico in 1881. He engaged in teaming and hauled freight between Las Vegas and White Oaks. He also hauled the first load of ore out of Kingston in New Mexico, when that place was a mining camp. The ore was hauled to Nut station before Deming was founded.

At Kingston he was a crony of Doheny, the oil magnate.

He later conducted a ranch in the Mogollones, after which he went into the cattle business near Kingston. He was born in New York state.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyschoha/fbloodgoodobit.html