To help make the message clear to the VOTER - it might aid the visual if oil and oil services companies actually showed some HARD numbers. For example, in the Barnett Shale in the North Tx multi county gas find, over 20,000 people have jobs paying an average of $50,000 per year and the majority of those jobs are expected to last 20 years. IF DRILLING was allowed on the millions on now closed federal lands, 200,000 people would be put to work. (MY figures on new hires is a WILD number and industry peopel would be more accurate, but it is hard numbers that are needed to get people to back a Drilling = Jobs messge.
Conservative candidates should not shirk from advocating drilling, refining, coal plants, gas plants, nuke plants anywhere anytime.
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