oilman:
(plural: ‘oilmen’)
oilmen at an oilwell
a person who owns or manges an oil well (fossil fuel oil found in the ground);
a person who makes and/or sells oil that is used to produce power or energy,
an oilman who wishes to be a politician
Being the only oilman who sells quality oil at reasonable prices, Uncle Kirk does a good business and people praise him for his honesty.
Most oilmen in the US stopped pumping oil from their wells as getting the oil from other oil-producing nations is easy and clean.
It’s astonishing to learn that the oilmen, who owns oil wells and tap oil indiscriminately causing so much pollution, become philanthropists when they have grown old and donate large sums of money to charities to cleanse their guilt of gaining those large sums polluting the entire atmosphere!
