More domestic energy, lots of good paying jobs, revitalizing local economies....no wonder the looney lefties are trying to stop it.
They are using a Federal grant to train workers to work in the gas fields?
Two things immediately leap out here:
1. This is probably the only such time these funds have actually been well spent;
2. Which means that it won’t be long before the Feds ban the use of those funds for this purpose.
I see a History Channel series in the future............Black Gold Rush!.............
IF Gov’t (and I mean States, not Fed) is going to give any money to education, it should be in the trades (like this) and in community colleges. Forget about universities. Train people for REAL careers
Federal to education, student loan gaurantees, etc... are a hideous waste. Cut it all.
“people with backgrounds in agriculture, construction and mechanics have a better shot at getting in”
The mining industry was the same. Some fifty underground laborers were hired and entry level trained every month, forty of them quit because the work was “ too hard” even though it paid very well.
The average annual income of a roughneck--a member of the oil rig in charge of handling pipelines and maintaining the rig--is $100,000. That includes overtime, daily stipends and room and board.Good on them!
I wish them all health, prosperity... and a good conservative outlook on life!
They'll just frack elsewhere.
PO'd in Upstate NY.
Dn't worry....as soon as they figure out how to regulate and tax the hell out of the fracking, they'll come to the table.
Once the needed facilities are complete, exports will take care of that.
Folks, there are so many plays in the US that there is a massive shortage of workers in the O&G sector.
In the past, folks from TX, OK, LA and AK would move around to the hottest play.
Now, there is so much activity and so many centuries of energy in these plays that local workers are required.
We are talking about generational employment here, folks! The people working in the fields today will pass it along to their children and grandchildren.
150 years from now, people will talk about their great grandad who helped drill the first wells in XXXXXXX.
Rush touched on this today. When Obama loses this fall, the new POTUS will only have to open up energy development and the economy will start its march toward another 20-year boom like we saw under Reagan.
"If they are not physically capable of working outside, in bad weather, dangerous conditions, I scare them out of drilling,"
Uh, oh. That sounds like code for men only. Obama's diversity staff better step in. Obviously, the requirements need to be lowered.