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Old 11-30-2011 | 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by acl65pilot
Very true. There are truckers up there making well over a 100K a year transporting oil everywhere. This was the temporary fix until they built the pipeline, but apparently the current administration blocked it. Looks like these jobs and there pay are here to stay for some time.
They are building pipelines to rail depots right now, but that will take them a few years to finish so the crude haulers are good for awhile. The guys making all the money with trucks are hauling water to frac with, frac sand, and belly dumps to build roads. That won't stop until the drilling stops which will go west into Montana and last up to 10 years if the EPA doesn't shut down fracing. The oil companies don't care what it costs, they just want the crude coming out of the ground so they are paying crazy amounts of money to get these wells finished very quickly before the EPA shuts them down. Might go for another 6 months or could go for 10 years if the governemnt stays out of the way, but in the mean time the money grab is on in a big way right now.