<p>Our petroleum engineering jobs have been vaporized. My buddies along with myself are up **** creek without a paddle at the moment. Everything from chemical, mechanical, electrical, and petroleum job offers in oil went from plentiful to scarce. My fathers work time has been cut. Many of the other engineers we know are out of work for atleast the next 2 months. This is on land and coastal drilling by the way. The only jobs right now are for PhD guys who want to do deep water exploration with 20 plus years of exp. Thank you democrats for electing the man who basically said,“I’m going to rip the oil companies a new ass hole”. Amen. Oh, did you here about his plan to enforce a fine for companies who do not meet carbon emission standards. It will increase every year for the company’s until it will be more economical for them to convert to green energy. Oh yeah, may I mention the smell of mergers is in the air. All the perks of electing a democrat. Oh, he hasn’t even unleashed his tax plan yet. It will be a sad 4 years, a nightmare if he is relected again. By that time I’ll be finding work in geo thermal, or some other nonsense. Oh yeah, let me also mention that our universities budgets are going to be cut substantially, smaller schools have already laid off a significant number of professors. Put it this way, for Louisiana, if oil isn’t around 80 dollars a barrel our state budget is in the negative. Currently, the LSU board of supervisiors is fighting the board to withdraw the 70 million or so they want to rip away from our budget. Which would literally be devistating. Oh, but you won’t here anything like that on CNN, it is all peace and love with them. Texas is even more ****ed. When the governor of texas is throwing around succeeding from the union like you throw around a ball to your dog, yeah, things aren’t going so well for us down here at this time.</p>