re: #536 Gus 802

The working man is always the one that suffers. My prediction? BP is going to survive this and the executives will continue to live a life far removed from the people in the Gulf. We will continue to use oil at the current pace which will see no net reduction in CO2. Basically, we’re sacrificing those workers.

Exactly.

This is for Louisiana, I can’t find anything on other states:

How many jobs does the oil and gas industry provide in Louisiana now?
The Louisiana Department of Economic Development estimates that the active drilling suspension alone will result in a loss of 3,000 to 6,000 Louisiana jobs in the first two to three weeks;
The ban could cost Louisianans more than 10,000 jobs within a few months;
The state risks losing more than 20,000 existing and potential new jobs during a 12 to 18 month period, if the federal panel takes longer than six months to do their reviews and write their reports;
Coastal Louisiana, where one in three jobs is related to the oil and gas industry, services around 90 percent of deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico;
The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources estimates that an average of two supply boats per rig work every day with rates of $15,000 to $30,000 a boat, which means that suspension of drilling activity will result in a nearly $1 million loss per day in supply boat rental income. Each drilling rig job supports four other jobs in local communities.

What is the overall impact of the Oil and Gas Industry in Louisiana?
Oil and gas production directly and indirectly supported $12.7 billion in household earnings in the state, representing 15.4 percent of total Louisiana household earnings in 2005;
The industry supported, directly and indirectly, more than 320,000 jobs and $70.2 billion in business sale in Louisiana in 2005;
In 2006, more than 58,000 Louisianans worked in extraction, pipeline and refining jobs.