I got tired of the hype about "excess" oil company profits and decided to get the facts. It turns out that the oil and gas industry generally is near the middle of the pack of American industries earning about 8% on sales in the 3rd quarter of 2005 as compared to the average of about 6.5%, but far lower than, for example, the semiconductor industry which earned about 14% on sales in the same period, or pharma & banks which both earned more than 18% on sales.
Beth Chinn Harp and Helen Allen McKeown have complied a phenomenal 1250 page volume cataloging the lives of the people as a way to tell the history of my home town ( Centertown, Kentucky ).
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