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Texas Oil Boom Fueling Trucker Bonuses Propels Odessa

Bloomberg -- Truckers can get $5,000 signing bonuses from companies serving Odessa, the West Texas center of a new Lone Star State oil boom and the nation’s fastest-growing city.

Housing is so tight that the local school district put deposits down on 15 apartments, to ensure that new teachers moving to the area would have places to live.

Union Pacific Corp. is adding tracks and railyard facilities to help trains handle flows of drilling supplies coming in and crude oil heading out. The rising prosperity, driven by new extraction technologies and hydraulic fracturing, has unleashed an economic surge that is transforming Texas’s “petroplex” of Odessa and nearby Midland.

“It’s like we just discovered oil out here,” said Mike George, the 65-year-old head of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce.

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Happy to see the positive impact oil production is having on an American city.
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Free markets always work.....
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Oil and gas exploration and production does provide significant benefits to local, state and national economies. Fossil fuel use is going to be with us for a long time. So take advantage of the home grown production to put people back to work.
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Keep on trucking!
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Sounds like Odessa/Midland is on it's way to becoming the energy capital of Texas. With wind and solar being big players O/M may see sustained prosperity.
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good for them
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BCM1 said it all!
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Sounds great. Would love to know which companies are looking for driver. Hope they keep pumping for many years.
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Funny how home grown energy promotes jobs and growth. Now if the current administration would only get a clue.
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Sounds great...
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Good for a state who wants prosperity.
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We need this oil. The U.S. government is cutting back production on public land whenever they can, so it's up to drillers on private land to take up the slack.
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Big payday for some of these truckers.
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Hopefully a long term trend
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Its all good
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I guess I should buy a truck and move to Texas.
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Sure.
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The same things is happening in North Dakota. Please are living in old trailers brought in by the oil company's or locals. Trailer in winter? Not good.
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Good news for the trucker.
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Texas is where business moving
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Wow, that's great news.
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Mojo Power!
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Just think how bad things would be in this country without these boom areas, it's not just Odessa.
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good now just open a few more refineries to refine the stuff so when others goes down for maintinace we won't have these riduclous prices!!!!!
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Good old Texas oil boom
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Well made in USA with new jobs to card-carrying Americans. Go the "American" party!!
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Good news for that region of Texas, but with every boom comes the follow-up bust, so the towns better be ready..
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We need to get older refineries back online, especially in the Philadelphia area.
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If ther is all this boom, then wahy is gas so high.
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Odessa, the new boom town.
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Good until the oil stops.
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And when the "boom" is over, Odessa will become a ghost town, again.
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