Life continues pretty much as it has the last ten years in Ironwood County. Some people struggle to find jobs and some that have them wish they worked somewhere else. Talk at the coffee shop revolves around oil prices once again. One diner read a section from the paper regarding subsidies of Big Oil:
“Why are we harming an industry — five large oil and gas companies that work internationally, that employ 9.2 million people in the United States directly?” asked Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana. “Why are we doing it?”
The bigger question is "Why does the U.S. taxpayer subsidize an industry that doesn't need subsidies?"
