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is creating 2,000 millionaires per year????

By 2012, income from oil royalties was reportedly paying many local mineral owners $50,000 to $60,000 per month, and some more than $100,000 per month. An economist estimated that the boom was creating 2,000 millionaires per year in North Dakota. The average income in Mountrail County has more than doubled since the boom started, to $52,027 in 2010, putting it into the top 100 richest counties in the United States.[8]
The oil boom reduced unemployment in North Dakota to 3.5 percent in December 2011, the lowest of any state in the US.[9][10]
North Dakota oil boom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Based on the amount employers are willing to pay, wages in North Dakota rarely dip below $14 per hour, despite the fact that the state itself has no minimum wage policy at all.
Other entry-level positions offer even higher rates, with a picture of job postings for a local Wal-Mart going viral.
A cashier position commanded a wage rate of $17.40 an hour.
Their analysis in March revealed that personal incomes have doubled over the past decade in North Dakota, surging
from $29,569 to more than $53,000 per capita a year, since 2003.
This represents a 93 percent increase, which places North Dakota third in the union for per capita personal income, trailing behind Connecticut and Washington, D.C.
North Dakota: No Minimum Wage Needed For High-Paying Jobs | The Daily Caller
 
Brilliant!!! All we need to do is drill giant oil fields in every state and everyone can make big money!!!

Why didn't we think of this before????
 
Brilliant!!! All we need to do is drill giant oil fields in every state and everyone can make big money!!!

Why didn't we think of this before????

Sorry to break up your fantasy. There are no giant oil fields in every state.
Now there are a lot of gas fields in many states.
The number of unconventional natural gas wells in the US rose from 18,485 in 2004 to 25,145 in 2007 and is expected to continue increasing[3] until about 2040.[4]

Shale gas in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now natural gas in case you didn't know it is being used (gasp!!) right now!
Yes natural gas right now in trucks cars etc.!
YUP.. and there is plenty.
 
You evidently think that 14 bucks and hour is good pay, until you try to pay to live in an oil/gas boom town...There is a housing shortage, hard winters and damn Canadians to live by...
 
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is creating 2,000 millionaires per year????

By 2012, income from oil royalties was reportedly paying many local mineral owners $50,000 to $60,000 per month, and some more than $100,000 per month. An economist estimated that the boom was creating 2,000 millionaires per year in North Dakota. The average income in Mountrail County has more than doubled since the boom started, to $52,027 in 2010, putting it into the top 100 richest counties in the United States.[8]
The oil boom reduced unemployment in North Dakota to 3.5 percent in December 2011, the lowest of any state in the US.[9][10]
North Dakota oil boom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Based on the amount employers are willing to pay, wages in North Dakota rarely dip below $14 per hour, despite the fact that the state itself has no minimum wage policy at all.
Other entry-level positions offer even higher rates, with a picture of job postings for a local Wal-Mart going viral.
A cashier position commanded a wage rate of $17.40 an hour.
Their analysis in March revealed that personal incomes have doubled over the past decade in North Dakota, surging
from $29,569 to more than $53,000 per capita a year, since 2003.
This represents a 93 percent increase, which places North Dakota third in the union for per capita personal income, trailing behind Connecticut and Washington, D.C.
North Dakota: No Minimum Wage Needed For High-Paying Jobs | The Daily Caller

Hurray! Let's become wealthy while screwing the enviroment with its pants on! Hard to believe no one ever made a folk song like that.
 
is creating 2,000 millionaires per year????

By 2012, income from oil royalties was reportedly paying many local mineral owners $50,000 to $60,000 per month, and some more than $100,000 per month. An economist estimated that the boom was creating 2,000 millionaires per year in North Dakota. The average income in Mountrail County has more than doubled since the boom started, to $52,027 in 2010, putting it into the top 100 richest counties in the United States.[8]
The oil boom reduced unemployment in North Dakota to 3.5 percent in December 2011, the lowest of any state in the US.[9][10]
North Dakota oil boom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Based on the amount employers are willing to pay, wages in North Dakota rarely dip below $14 per hour, despite the fact that the state itself has no minimum wage policy at all.
Other entry-level positions offer even higher rates, with a picture of job postings for a local Wal-Mart going viral.
A cashier position commanded a wage rate of $17.40 an hour.
Their analysis in March revealed that personal incomes have doubled over the past decade in North Dakota, surging
from $29,569 to more than $53,000 per capita a year, since 2003.
This represents a 93 percent increase, which places North Dakota third in the union for per capita personal income, trailing behind Connecticut and Washington, D.C.
North Dakota: No Minimum Wage Needed For High-Paying Jobs | The Daily Caller

Hurray! Let's become wealthy while screwing the enviroment with its pants on! Hard to believe no one ever made a folk song like that.

Screwing the environment? Please prove your claim because I'll prove the environment is better in the USA today then it was
when America was first settled!
1) How did Indians kill buffalos before horses that were brought by the white man?
Before horses indians most commonly, entire tribes were organized to form shouting, robe-waving columns that would try to stampede a herd over a cliff. Men waited below with lances to finish the animals off.
How Did The Indians Hunt The Buffalo Before They Had Horses? - Blurtit
2) Trees...
In the United States, which contains 8 percent of the world's forests,
there are more trees than there were 100 years ago.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), "Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s.
By 1997, forest growth exceeded harvest by 42 percent and the volume of forest growth was 380 percent greater than it had been in 1920." The greatest gains have been seen on the East Coast (with average volumes of wood per acre almost doubling since the '50s) which was the area most heavily logged by European settlers beginning in the 1600s, soon after their arrival.
More trees than there were 100 years ago? It's true! | MNN - Mother Nature Network

See people that are ignorant about forestry don't comprehend that TREES ARE A CROP!
Farmers harvest and then replant the next year.
For example, in 2010, Weyerhaeuser reported planting 50 million seedlings.

In theory, planting any kind of tree to produce more forest cover would absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. On the other hand, a genetically modified tree specimen might grow much faster than any other regular tree. Some of these trees are already being developed in the lumber and biofuel industries. These fast-growing trees would not only be planted for those industries but they can also be planted to help absorb carbon dioxide faster than slow-growing trees.
Reforestation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Right wingers never take into account the people who are paid under the table.
 
You evidently think that 14 bucks and hour is good pay, until you try to pay to live in an oil/gas boom town...There is a housing shortage, hard winters and damn Canadians to live by...

What you have noted is the cause and effect of higher wages ... prices rise. I wonder what a Big Mac costs in Boomtown, N. Dakota?
 
is creating 2,000 millionaires per year????

By 2012, income from oil royalties was reportedly paying many local mineral owners $50,000 to $60,000 per month, and some more than $100,000 per month. An economist estimated that the boom was creating 2,000 millionaires per year in North Dakota. The average income in Mountrail County has more than doubled since the boom started, to $52,027 in 2010, putting it into the top 100 richest counties in the United States.[8]
The oil boom reduced unemployment in North Dakota to 3.5 percent in December 2011, the lowest of any state in the US.[9][10]
North Dakota oil boom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Based on the amount employers are willing to pay, wages in North Dakota rarely dip below $14 per hour, despite the fact that the state itself has no minimum wage policy at all.
Other entry-level positions offer even higher rates, with a picture of job postings for a local Wal-Mart going viral.
A cashier position commanded a wage rate of $17.40 an hour.
Their analysis in March revealed that personal incomes have doubled over the past decade in North Dakota, surging
from $29,569 to more than $53,000 per capita a year, since 2003.
This represents a 93 percent increase, which places North Dakota third in the union for per capita personal income, trailing behind Connecticut and Washington, D.C.
North Dakota: No Minimum Wage Needed For High-Paying Jobs | The Daily Caller

Hurray! Let's become wealthy while screwing the enviroment with its pants on! Hard to believe no one ever made a folk song like that.

Screwing the environment? Please prove your claim because I'll prove the environment is better in the USA today then it was
when America was first settled!
1) How did Indians kill buffalos before horses that were brought by the white man?
Before horses indians most commonly, entire tribes were organized to form shouting, robe-waving columns that would try to stampede a herd over a cliff. Men waited below with lances to finish the animals off.
How Did The Indians Hunt The Buffalo Before They Had Horses? - Blurtit
2) Trees...
In the United States, which contains 8 percent of the world's forests,
there are more trees than there were 100 years ago.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), "Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s.
By 1997, forest growth exceeded harvest by 42 percent and the volume of forest growth was 380 percent greater than it had been in 1920." The greatest gains have been seen on the East Coast (with average volumes of wood per acre almost doubling since the '50s) which was the area most heavily logged by European settlers beginning in the 1600s, soon after their arrival.
More trees than there were 100 years ago? It's true! | MNN - Mother Nature Network

See people that are ignorant about forestry don't comprehend that TREES ARE A CROP!
Farmers harvest and then replant the next year.
For example, in 2010, Weyerhaeuser reported planting 50 million seedlings.

In theory, planting any kind of tree to produce more forest cover would absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. On the other hand, a genetically modified tree specimen might grow much faster than any other regular tree. Some of these trees are already being developed in the lumber and biofuel industries. These fast-growing trees would not only be planted for those industries but they can also be planted to help absorb carbon dioxide faster than slow-growing trees.
Reforestation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That is because before the Great depression, deforestation had cleared the US making it ripe for a dust bowl from clear cut farming operations..During the depression and since the US Dept. of Forestry has reforested the US...but I see new farmers that are again dozing the land off for agriculture and also dozing down the tree lines which break up strong winds that affect soil erosion...
 
Right wingers never take into account the people who are paid under the table.

And what does that have to do with the thread topic?
People like YOU NEVER make any sense but that makes sense as you are all full of nonsense!
 
it is sad to see these republicans show their total stupidity out in the open as if they are proud of it. health didn't even see he was being mocked by let's drill in every state. or did he? either way, it's sad.
 
Brilliant!!! All we need to do is drill giant oil fields in every state and everyone can make big money!!!

Why didn't we think of this before????

You miss the point. The reason North Dakota is paying low skilled workers so much is the LACK of workers. See when there are few workers than jobs, then the employers have to compete for workers. However, when there more workers than jobs the employers don't have to compete. In North Dakota that is the case.

See what liberals don't want to accept is that illegal immigration is the culprit here. It is no coincidence that in every kitchen and back room illegals are there.

North Dakota is one of the few states without an illegal problem. Yes the oil boom towns are driving up populations and demand for services in this industry, but make no mistake, if this was happening in a high illegal immigration state, the wages would be at minimum wage!
 
Hurray! Let's become wealthy while screwing the enviroment with its pants on! Hard to believe no one ever made a folk song like that.

Screwing the environment? Please prove your claim because I'll prove the environment is better in the USA today then it was
when America was first settled!
1) How did Indians kill buffalos before horses that were brought by the white man?
Before horses indians most commonly, entire tribes were organized to form shouting, robe-waving columns that would try to stampede a herd over a cliff. Men waited below with lances to finish the animals off.
How Did The Indians Hunt The Buffalo Before They Had Horses? - Blurtit
2) Trees...
In the United States, which contains 8 percent of the world's forests,
there are more trees than there were 100 years ago.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), "Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s.
By 1997, forest growth exceeded harvest by 42 percent and the volume of forest growth was 380 percent greater than it had been in 1920." The greatest gains have been seen on the East Coast (with average volumes of wood per acre almost doubling since the '50s) which was the area most heavily logged by European settlers beginning in the 1600s, soon after their arrival.
More trees than there were 100 years ago? It's true! | MNN - Mother Nature Network

See people that are ignorant about forestry don't comprehend that TREES ARE A CROP!
Farmers harvest and then replant the next year.
For example, in 2010, Weyerhaeuser reported planting 50 million seedlings.

In theory, planting any kind of tree to produce more forest cover would absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. On the other hand, a genetically modified tree specimen might grow much faster than any other regular tree. Some of these trees are already being developed in the lumber and biofuel industries. These fast-growing trees would not only be planted for those industries but they can also be planted to help absorb carbon dioxide faster than slow-growing trees.
Reforestation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That is because before the Great depression, deforestation had cleared the US making it ripe for a dust bowl from clear cut farming operations..During the depression and since the US Dept. of Forestry has reforested the US...but I see new farmers that are again dozing the land off for agriculture and also dozing down the tree lines which break up strong winds that affect soil erosion...

YOU don't see SHIT!!!
Geez... I see an idiot! Prove to me where farmers are "dozing" land and tree lines???

PLEASE when idiots like you don't back up your guesses, your hyperbole, all you do is show how dumb you guys are!
DEAL WITH FACTS PLEASE ! Show me where that is occurring on a scale equal to your hyperbole!!!
Geez you idiots make so sick! It is so easy to use the internet and yet you rely on hyperbole, exaggerations, idiots!
 
it is sad to see these republicans show their total stupidity out in the open as if they are proud of it. health didn't even see he was being mocked by let's drill in every state. or did he? either way, it's sad.

Health did see it and health responded to it with a very credible and rational response.

New to the board and you already look like a moron.

Well done.,
 
it is sad to see these republicans show their total stupidity out in the open as if they are proud of it. health didn't even see he was being mocked by let's drill in every state. or did he? either way, it's sad.

"Mocked"???
I'm offended! I want an apology! How rude!

There... does that faked indignation make you feel better?
 

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