That new oil boom has got me all getting me having these warm fuzzy feelings in how America can be or will be the world's greatest oil producer soon if only we are allowed to.
Yes Sir'reeeee ... I dream it... I imagine it ? all these nice new factories and businesses, popping up coast to coast.... white people and black people finding things in common and black people finally throwing off the shackles of the Democrat Party and Liberalism.
I see Americans coast to coast getting back to work and Americans doing what they do best.... Living, Dreaming, working, inventing, hoping ( not the fake kind ) prospering.
See Julie ? that there is something to write about.... people's dreams of America's future.
Yes Joe.... I feel it.. I sense it.. I hope it... I dream it.. I imagine it..
Oil Oil everywhere.. cheap gasoline... new stores... new homes popping up.
American Exceptionalism
I have seen license plates from every state and Puerto Rico in Williston, North Dakota--people who came for work, and found it. While the oil boom may not be felt coast to coast, there are people in Pennsylvania ordering lumber to make modular housing to ship here, folks in Texas and Oklahoma machining oil tools, truckers from all over bringing materials in. The effects extend far beyond western North Dakota.
It is nice to live in an area that is a beacon of hope in a dreary world, and a real change from 1982 when half the population there packed up and left, when you couldn't buy a job, homes sat empty, and many lost all they had. I have seen both sides of an oil boom, and despite the growing pains, this is the good side.
There are other regions of the US with similar resources. The chief obstacle to the development of those resources is in Washington, D.C.
Hopefully, that will change, and we can start putting this country back together, without shipping more treasure elsewhere to power that recovery.