They showed up at Louisiana State University's (LSU) the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's (ULL) Cajundome in droves, an estimated 15,000 thousand people who decided to stand up and be counted. They were energy workers, housewives, fishermen, and small-business people united in their desire to get back to work.
"I'm here because I'm worried," John Henry told an Associated Press reporter. "We're already slowing things down at work. If companies can't drill, it will get worse."
The administration's de facto moratorium on offshore drilling is threatening the jobs of tens of thousands of Gulf Coast workers. According to the LSU Center for Energy Studies, the offshore oil and natural gas industry and the companies that support it employ about 100,000 people in Louisiana alone. Add that to... more »
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