re: When does Oil Field trash stop marking Oil Field cash and start begging?

Post like this remind me how out of touch a large portion of the populace is with what drives our economy, especially in Louisiana. Did filling up with gas suck when Oil was $100/BL? Yep. Was the economic boom that hit many areas of the state during this time beneficial to everyone? Yep. Louisiana needs healthy oil prices, as much as we love to hate on some of the workers in the fields with their F250's, truck nuts, affliction shirts, new iberia haircuts, and hairdresser wives who make sure their bed is warmed by Jody when baw is away. Jody laying pipe and Baw doping pipe means engineering jobs, skilled labor jobs, IT jobs, hospitality jobs, and local businesses are making money too.

But by gawd let's make another OT post making fun of them because they bought toys my wife won't let me buy, and it costs me $5 less to fill up my Civic.