CNN Money reported on Oct. 11 that the United States is set to overtake Russia as the biggest oil producer outside OPEC during 2014, as shale production ramps up and helps reshape the global energy map. This is good news for the national economy and demonstrates that the oil industry is generating thousands of new jobs paying $100,000 a year for field workers and commercial truck drivers in various parts of the country.
You can read the original article, written by Virginia Harrison, here: http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/11/news/economy/us-oil-iea/index.html.