Saturday, November 26, 2011

A jobs sausagefest: North Dakota Oil Boom Creates Camps of Men. "As much as the drilling rigs that tower over this once placid corner of the prairie, the two communities springing up just outside of town testify to the galloping pace of growth here in oil country." Obama must be horrified.

That was from the New York Times. This is from The Wall Street Journal: The Non-Green Jobs Boom. "Forget ‘clean energy.’ Oil and gas are boosting U.S. employment.  —  So President Obama was right all along.  Domestic energy production really is a path to prosperity and new job creation.  His mistake was predicting that those new jobs would be “green,” …  " Indeed.