re: Good news for Lake Charles area - Commonwealth LNG moving forward in Cameron Parish

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How much money do you think these temporary workers are dropping in Cameron and Calcasieu Parish?

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It’s not hard to figure out: rent, utilities, gas, food, etc.

That’s just the necessities. Now throw in that many only go home once a month, then you have entertainment, restaurants, bars, shopping.

RV spots are about $500/month. 3 bed homes in Cameron will rent for between $2-3k a month

Let’s just be super conservative here and say the avg anyone spends in a month locally is $500 x 5000 workers (half the actual at peak) and that’s $2.5M per month. Comes out to over $100k per month in sales tax that wouldn’t be there otherwise