Matt Simmons, a prominent oil industry insider who served as an energy advisor to President George W. Bush, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday of what the media is reporting as "an apparent heart attack" at his home in North Haven, Maine.

Simmons is survived by his wife, Ellen, and their five daughters.

Simmons had been making waves and irritating very powerful people with his revelations in the past eight weeks that BP was lying about the size and scope of the oil disaster. Simmons also revealed that the official BP live video coverage about the leak was nothing more than a dog-and-pony show designed to deceive the public.

Simmons was among the first credible oil insiders to reveal that the initial claims of a spill rate of 1,000 or 5,000 barrels per day were significantly understated and that the true size of the oil gusher into the Gulf was over 100,000 barrels per day.

Described as a "provocateur," "whistleblower," "informant," "rumormonger," and other namesakes, there is no question that Simmons had upset an industry and an administration that were doing their best to lull the public to sleep over the Gulf Oil Disaster.

Simmons' alarmist messages stood in stark contrast to the official pronouncements that continuously downplayed the true extent of the disaster.

Many are left wondering if Simmons' death was more than just a tragic coincidence.

We aren't.

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