Oil Reports Are Slim and Slippery

Would someone please show me an article about the oils that is as robust and positive as the action? Will someone please show me something that isn't negative about the group? Will someone give us insight as to why the group is higher, and I don't mean the meager Exxon Mobil (XOM - commentary - Cramer's Take) dividend boost, even as it is great to see with this decline in crude?

Today, I steamed when I read this cheap-shot "Heard on the Street" piece about the BP (BP - commentary - Cramer's Take) dividend, the endless hectoring that it can't be maintained. The quarter was great, the company has been committed to it, and the company has made it clear that there is no problem given these prices for oil.

Plus, we crave some analysis that is positive here about the drillers because Baker Hughes (BHI - commentary - Cramer's Take) says that the rig count has been cut in half, and we know that natural gas has been cut by two-thirds, yet the Oil Services HOLDRs (OIH - commentary - Cramer's Take) is screaming. All I am asking for is some help here! This rally is eluding everyone, and I need intel!

We are at a strange moment in the oils. The press is totally captured by the bears. I never read a positive piece about either drillers or oils, even as the former has shown remarkable profitability as witnessed by Halliburton (HAL - commentary - Cramer's Take), Schlumberger (SLB - commentary - Cramer's Take) and Baker Hughes, and the latter is just way too hated, like BP!

Random musings: How about how well these appliances makers act? I think Whirlpool (WHR - commentary - Cramer's Take) is a steal because it is so hated.... Wal-Mart is on fire for the first time in a while.... And Disney (DIS - commentary - Cramer's Take) is on a bust out.

At the time of publication, Cramer was long BP and Wal-Mart.

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