{"id":1483,"date":"2014-10-30T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2014-10-30T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:03:43","slug":"texas-oil-and-gas-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/texas-oil-and-gas-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Oil and Gas BY THE NUMBERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>40% of all U. S. oil and gas jobs or 411,600 workers are in oil and gas jobs and 4.4% of Texas jobs in this industry.\u00a0 Every one of Texas&#8217; 36 congressional districts, 150 House districts and 31 Senate districts include counties where people are employed in the oil and gas industry or 95% of Texas counties are producers.\u00a0 The Rainy Day Fund is almost entirely supported by this industry, which helps support public education, water and road infrastructure projects and disaster recovery, etc.\u00a0 The State of Texas is the TOP PRODUCER OF OIL &amp; GAS IN THE NATION.\u00a0 In Texas there are currently 2.5 million royalty owners in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40% of all U. S. oil and gas jobs or 411,600 workers are in oil and gas jobs and 4.4% of Texas jobs in this industry.\u00a0 Every one of Texas&#8217; 36 congressional districts, 150 House districts and 31 Senate districts include counties where people are employed in the oil and gas industry or 95% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}