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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1692)	8/15/2008 6:00:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Re the SPR, whatever you take out, you have to put back someday. Looking at the SPR is a very shortterm way of looking at things imo. -------------------------------------------------- Cut the crap.....you don't give a damn about American workers...and besides drilling employs relatively few workers.. Hell I don't. I am an American and American workers are family to me. "relatively few" Its not few in my neck of the woods. I suspect you're under-estimating. Its not a handful of guys on a rig working for a few months. My son in law works for a valve company - is that a drilling job? Actually its drilling related. One exploration well leads to hundreds, maybe thousands of development and production wells over a period of many years. Those wells have to be worked over and maintained. Facilities to get the oil and natural gas out of the ground, seperated, pumped (pipelines) or shipped out have to be built and maintained over the life of the reserves. There's a very big support industry for all this.