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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 41033" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: When Political Correctness BackfiresIt&#039;s a shame there are lots of potential jobs related to that politically incorrect industry hanging in the balance of political machinations.I can&#039;t even estimate how many jobs but a large bunch in several states just from a pipeline down from canada that is not being welcomed. BP finally got their first permit to drill in the gulf since the spill... but many rigs that were down there left dodge when the drilling stopped. Several of those were $1M a day operations or on that order. Then there is a ripple effect on the economy if we can get energy prices lower that will help all industries. Finally, if we can start pumping enough oil to affect the marginal world supply we can break the hold the middle east oil cartel has on prices and really cut energy costs, for the whole world... Libya and Iraq are already ramping up. But what am I thinking, these aren&#039;t green jobs so not PC. JRPS Oz is rocking , they even use robots to drive big earth movers for surface mining with guys sitting at a computer screen hundreds of miles away driving the heavy machinery.&nbsp; Oz is supplying a lot of the raw material that China turns into finished goods.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 41033, member: 126"] Re: When Political Correctness Backfires It's a shame there are lots of potential jobs related to that politically incorrect industry hanging in the balance of political machinations. I can't even estimate how many jobs but a large bunch in several states just from a pipeline down from canada that is not being welcomed. BP finally got their first permit to drill in the gulf since the spill... but many rigs that were down there left dodge when the drilling stopped. Several of those were $1M a day operations or on that order. Then there is a ripple effect on the economy if we can get energy prices lower that will help all industries. Finally, if we can start pumping enough oil to affect the marginal world supply we can break the hold the middle east oil cartel has on prices and really cut energy costs, for the whole world... Libya and Iraq are already ramping up. But what am I thinking, these aren't green jobs so not PC. JR PS Oz is rocking , they even use robots to drive big earth movers for surface mining with guys sitting at a computer screen hundreds of miles away driving the heavy machinery. Oz is supplying a lot of the raw material that China turns into finished goods. [/QUOTE]

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