b'2020 Scholarship Foundation2019-20 Officers, Directorscontinued CEOs MessageMONTANA Jason Case MPMCSA PresidentRebel Oil Inc Dirk CooperLas VegasHi-Noon PetroleumChris Kemper Missoula Terrible Herbst Oil What A Year MPMCSA Vice-PresidentLas VegasScott CurryNV Associate Board DirectorBen Taylor IncJoe McGinley2020! Valier McGinley & Associates MPMCSA PMAA Director & RenoImmediate Past President WPMA Chief IIKary Tonjum NEW MEXICOCityServiceValconNMPMA President KalispellBrian Ashburn Allsup Petroleum Inc If you had written a book telling meMPMCSA ClovisExecutive Directorthe government could kill a robustBrad LongcakeNMPMA Vice-PresidentMPMCSATom Hennessy Executive Officereconomy in less than six weeks, Helena Brewer Oil Co would have never believed your story couldMONTANA STATE DIRECTORS Albuquerque(CEO) become real life. The last three months haveSteve HaaseNMPMA PMAA DirectorGene Inglesby CHS Inc/Zip Trip& Immediateproved to be very challenging and life chang- Past NMPMA President ing - with $12.00 a barrel crude oil and theSpokane Valley, WA Leland Gould Jim Kenneally Dow Jones Industrial Average being downTown Pump IncMarathon Petroleum Corpthirty percent from mid-February, making itButte Albuquerqueback to twenty percent down in late April;Chris RindalNMPMA Executive DirectorRuben Baca with about seventy percent of employees inRindal Oil CompanyNMPMA every state being sent home to work, and an- Lewistown Albuquerqueother twenty percent being furloughed or laidJason RorabaughNEW MEXICORocky Mountain SupplySTATE DIRECTORSoff; with employees not being able to applyBelgrade Doug Adams for Workers Compensation because the sys- Roger SchmechelSandia Oil Co tem cannot handle the volume it is currentlyCityServiceValconAlbuquerquereceiving, overloaded with workers trying toBillings Jim Allee file a claim. What a year this has been! Dave WilliamsFarmington Oil Co Agland CooperativeFarmingtonAfter the government shut everything downWolfpoint Judge Dobrient and authorized $2.2 trillion in relief forMT Associate Board Director Delek US Kirk BrumfieldDallas, TXbusiness and $5+ billion into the hands ofMarketing Specialties IncAlan Franken Americans (at the expense of you and I theBillings Franken Oil & Distributing Co taxpayers), the theory is they will invest back NEVADA Las Vegasinto the economy. The trouble is that rightNPM&CSA PresidentGary Harrell now there is no economy to invest this stimu- Jeremy BautistaBell Gas Inc lus package back into. The money is moreRiver City PetroleumRoswell Las Vegas Benny Hodges than likely to be used to buy groceries, try toHodges Oil Co Inc keep the lights on, and pay the mortgage forNPM&CSA Vice-President BelenChristi Carano Case another month. Following is a chart listingRebel Oil IncAlex Hodges-Swinford the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19Las Vegas Hodges Oil Co Inc as of this writing, along with the number ofNPM&CSA PMAA DirectorBelenRobert FlippoDanny Kendrick deaths to date. Keep in mind the population inNew West Oil CompanyKendrick Oil the United States in 2019 was 328.2 million. Las VegasFriona, TXIt is my hope you and your business areImmediate NM Associate Board DirectorsPast NPM&CSA PresidentRodney Reynolds weathering this physical, emotional andBob PraryCore-Mark International economic storm, and we will all get back onFlyers Energy LLCAlbuquerqueour feet as soon as we possibly can. OverSparks Reggie Roberson NPM&CSA ExecutiveEaton Sales & Service the years, oil marketers have proved to be aDirector Albuquerquetenacious and determined group, survivingPeter Krueger the many ups and downs of doing business inNPM&CSA, RenoOREGONthe petroleum industry. I have great faith thatNEVADA STATE DIRECTORS OFA PresidentCraig Allison& PMAA Director you can do so again with this new and unprec- Hunt & Sons IncMatt Truax edented challenge. (See Chart of COVID-19Reno Truax Corporation Cases ranked by State on following page.) David CampbellCorvallisPilot Thomas Logistics continued on page 6 Carlin continued on page 6WPMA News / Summer 20205'