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Old 08-13-2011, 07:55 AM   #1
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I have been seeing commercials from the oil/gas companies and they state that they employ 8.1 million people in the US. I think that is the number they quoted. How many of you know people employed in that industry? The only people i can think of are the guys and girls that work at gas stations. That would have to be a huge percentage of the 8.1 million people. Not exactly high paying jobs.
When you think about the development, extraction, refining, transportation, lawyers and sales people I would think that is about right.
Not to mention all the politicians they have on the payroll.
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