Oil and Gas Industry Jobs In Louisiana: The True Story

 Every time America elects a democratic President the public and especially the public in Louisiana are exposed to the big republican lie and fraudulent statements how Louisiana jobs will be killed, the industry will be shut down and the sky is falling doom rhetoric.  And the leaders of this propaganda ae Louisiana's so called conservative elected officials and the Louisiana opinion writers.  But PolitiDose has been telling the real story how the industry and its workers do better under democratic administrations and use facts to back it up.

Now we have more proof of the lies and the facts in the form of a chart published by the New Orleans Advocate dated 1/27/21.  The republicans and their ally opinion writers know of this information but they choose to propagate the lies.  What the chart shows is the number of jobs in Louisiana's oil and gas industry in the last 30 years had its greatest employment by far during the democratic administrations of President Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama.  It also shows Louisiana's worst employment took place on the watch of republican President Donald Trump.  

There were 59,500 jobs in 1998 and just 29,200 jobs in December 2020 in Louisiana's oil and gas industry according to the chart and report.  The chart also shows that in 2010, the year of the BP oil disaster and President Obama's moratorium, which the republicans said would kill jobs and ruin the industry, employment still stayed high and much greater than under Trump and the industry did not die.

The economy always plays a major role in employment, regardless of the industry, which is another reason why employment does so much better on the democratic watch.  Job creation under democratic administrations are leaps ahead of job creation under republican administrations.  And fewer, much fewer economic recessions take place on the democratic watch that interrupt the economy.  The opposite takes place on the republican watch and every republican administration in the past 100 years gave the country an economic  recession.  

Republican and industry lies have been a disaster for Louisiana employment.  What the state needs to do is broaden it industry base and job creation.  The state has paid too much attention to the oil  and gas industry for too long and neglected other options.  The state has also looked the other way on the industry's abuse of the states environment.  

We know the real facts, now we need real actions to take advantage of the facts.

This  commentary written by Joe  Lorio