Energy is responsible for these states’ job recoveries “to a very large degree,” says Jim Diffley, senior director of U.S. regional services at IHS Global Insight. “In North Dakota and Alaska, the energy sector is predominately very much the single most important factor.”
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July 28, 2011 05:52
Billions in tax revenue and thousands of jobs in states where its ‘drill baby, drill’
The Obama administration continues to block drilling where it can but Texas, North Dakota and Pennsylvania have an energy boom resulting in thousands of jobs and billions in new tax revenues. Wherever the federal government manages higher percentages of land oil industry jobs have been reduced dramatically. The only thing standing in the way of expanding US production is the federal government.
May 27, 2011 04:15
The Administration’s No New Energy Policy
Currently, 56% of the U.S. trade deficit is the result of oil imports. Two hundred billion dollars of American wealth is transferred overseas every year to countries that don’t like us very much. If current Obama Administration policies don’t change soon these numbers will only get bigger. Regardless of these numbers the Obama Administration only wants to hear about green energy.
May 25, 2011 04:22
Busting Gas Price Myths – Obama lies, economy dies
Prices have more than doubled since President Obama took office. The media has been slow to demand answers of the President or hold him accountable when he lies about his ant-energy policies. He has been busy trying to deflect attention away from his incoherent energy policy with a number of gas price-related myths.
May 13, 2011 05:31
Democrat slams Obama’s anti-energy policies
Harold Ford, until recently an important Democratic representative from Tennessee is doing the criticizing of President Barack Obama’s energy policy.
May 5, 2011 08:14
Obama’s Anti-Energy Policies Are Bankrupting America and Killing Jobs
Randall Stilley has witnessed firsthand the Obama administration’s job-killing agenda. As the president and chief executive of Seahawk Drilling, he had to lay off 632 employees before filing for bankruptcy — a direct result of President Obama’s anti-energy policies.
April 20, 2011 04:16
Year After Oil Spill, Obama Energy Policy Endangers Economy
How can Obama say he wants to create new jobs when he is destroying jobs every single day right now.
March 16, 2011 06:24
The $4-Per-Gallon President – Sarah Palin
His war on domestic oil and gas exploration and production has caused us pain at the pump, endangered our already sluggish economic recovery, and threatened our national security.
March 11, 2011 10:44
Geithner Unwittingly Makes Case for Drill Baby Drill
That’s the message we’ve been broadcasting for quite some time now: the way to boost economic output, provide more affordable energy, and ease the government’s fiscal problem is to unshackle the producers of domestic energy.
January 14, 2011 05:25
America Is Losing the Resource Race
In effect, Obama has sold out his country to every special interest group opposed to resource development and economic growth. Sadly, Americans will be paying for price for this administration’s enslavement to these special interests for decades to come.
