Unemployment in the San Antonio metro area already is down to 7.5 percent, compared to the official 9 percent of the rest of the country—thanks to a South Texas boomlet in the oil and gas industry.
This one also is bringing prosperity to the small towns of a 400-mile area that geologists call the Eagle Ford Shale, which is part of the Austin Chalk. Drilling companies are hiring truck drivers to computer techs, as well as the usual roughnecks and tool pushers for the oil and gas drilling rigs servicing a new pipeline in Hobson, southeast of San Antonio.
It’s part of a national boom in shale oil and gas recovery in North Dakota and Pennsylvania and, if the drillers get their way, even in upstate New York. And they might, if Obamalot and its anti-fossil fuel Green cronies can’t find a way to kill the whole thing. If they’re smarter than they’ve acted so far, they’ll back off and lay low until the 2012 election is over.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
