Chapter 10
“You gotta understand,” he told her, “In ’72, you felt rich if you were making $10,000, $12,000 a year. ‘Round here, families lived on $300, maybe $500 a month and ate what they could grow or raise. These days, kids make that much working part time, flippin’ burgers in a fast food joint so, in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s, $100 was a lot of money. $200 paid your mortgage and the note on your truck.”
“But they were pumping what, 200-300 barrels a day, the guys who hit around here, right?”
“Who told you that? Maybe now, with all that new-fangled fracking equipment, but not back then. Then, coming through all the shale ‘round here, you were lucky to get 70-80 barrels. Further into the region...say over in Pennsylvania, they were probably pulling in the 2-300’s back then.”
“Why, th
