The false promise of fracking and local jobs

[Curmudgeoness]

2. There are a couple of rental houses in my neighborhood,

and recently (the last few years), they have been rented to fracking crews. There are at least five cars at these houses, all of them with license plates from ND, OK, TX, etc. They will be here about a year, then move on. But they never get a PA plate for the vehicles, so the state isn't even getting money for that from these transients who are not so transient. One year is a long time to live in one place without residency. When I see vehicles at the drilling sites, there are none with PA plates....so no PA residents are being employed by these companies.

So, besides these workers coming from out of state, they are abusing our tax system here. I only can assume that they have to pay income taxes to PA and this city where they are living, but I don't know that.

Tell me again how wonderful this fracking industry is.