They gotta stop putting crap like this on the lead nation page.
"West Texas oil patch towns are living large; Reap benefits as oil topped $140 a barrel" by Betsy Blaney and Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press | August 20, 2008
KERMIT, Texas - Around the country, Americans are tightening their belts, scrapping vacation plans, eating more dinners at home, getting rid of their SUVs, and watching "For Sale" signs linger on front lawns. But in oil-and-gas rich West Texas, folks are living large - again.
Well, that's great! Nuthin' like findin corn in a log, 'eh?
Most homes sell quickly and command premium prices. Hotel rooms are in scant supply. Gas guzzlers are rolling off auto dealers' lots. Jobs are plentiful in the oil and gas fields and the businesses that serve them.
Drillers and energy companies are reaping a bonanza from the runup in oil that pushed the price past $140 a barrel this summer. This oil town of just over 5,100 people about 45 miles west of Odessa is awash in prosperity, and it's the same story across the rest of the Permian Basin, where about 20 percent of US oil is produced.
So far, the boom has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars to the region and more than 26,000 new jobs. While plummeting home prices and record-high foreclosures have hit neighborhoods across the United States, this region is seeing the opposite.
And that's why this "feel good" story leads the national news in my crap Zionist War Daily. The agenda-pushing is really beyond belief.
The nexus of corporate, oil, military, and Zionist interests contained all in pages of newsprint.
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