To: SeaHawkFan
Good one. The oil business is usually feast/famine.
Back in the mid 80’s the price of oil was $9 per barrel.
Joke going around that time was:
What’s the difference between a Texas oil man and a pigeon?
A pigeon can make a deposit on a Mercedes Benz.
28 posted on
01/24/2016 9:47:27 AM PST by
Texas resident
(The democrat party will destroy our country and they think it won't affect them.)
To: Texas resident
Another one was "A major corporation is hiring geologists and drilling engineers hand over fist in Denver!"
"Who?"
"McDonalds!"
44 posted on
01/24/2016 2:09:03 PM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Texas resident
My inflation calculator says 9$ in 1985 = $20.50 in 2015.
45 posted on
01/24/2016 2:13:37 PM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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