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1.838 million People that are directly employed in the U.S. by the oil and gas industry
4.066 million Indirect jobs that are created by the oil and natural gas industry
5.904 million Total jobs created by the oil and gas industry
$90 billion Total amount in taxes paid by the oil and natural gas industry in 2006
$28 billion Amount paid by the oil and natural gas industry in U.S. federal, state and local taxes in 2006
$174 billion Total amount that a representative sample of 57 oil and natural gas companies have invested back into the industry
97% Percentage of those companies’ net income represented by the invested $174 billion
$103.9 billion Amount invested by oil and natural gas companies for frontier hydrocarbons such as oil sands, oil shale and gasification technology from 2000 to 2007
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