Shortage of Oil Workers? Hardly
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‘This Well’s Nearly Run Dry” (Heard on the Beat, Aug. 8) described a supposed “shortage” of technically trained people for the oil industry. The cause of this shortage was the loss of over 800,000 people in the industry blood bath of the late 1980s. In fact, no such shortage exists. More than enough people to fill any need could be drawn from the unemployed or underemployed among those 800,000 were it not for industry’s reluctance to hire anyone over the age of 30.
WILLIAM G. CARTER
Westchester
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