Posts Tagged Oil and Gas

Rep. Tom Price Claims Offshore Drilling Would Create 36 Million Jobs

Posted by Josh on Friday, 15 May, 2009

Rep. Tom Price, in this Republican Study Committee summary of the American Energy Innovation Act (PDF), makes this dubious claim:

Opening the full Outer Continental Shelf to energy production would create 36 million jobs over the next 30 years.

Read that again so it sinks in.  The oil and gas extraction industry currently employs about 168,000 Americans.