Poor Thom's thread got panned because, get ready for it Thom, you sounded just like Sarah Palin. Drill baby drill.
I have a friend that is taking advantage of the boom in ND, when his job played out in AR. He is making extremely good money. Only issue is there is more demand for workers than there are places to house the workers. (Oh, and he is bitching that the town is 90% men, LOL). But, you are right Thom, we could have a boom, and we will, when the EPA is suffocated in 2013, and we put people back to work where the jobs are. Or ya know, you could apply at Solyndra, wink wink.