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What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
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AndreWhere
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
It's amazing how many of these I hadn't even heard of.
"CenturyLink" - an $18 billion dollar per year conglomerate built on a foundation of $35 billion in debt, headquartered in a southern backwater town. It's like WorldCom II.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
edit: added map, but OP fixed his link.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-23-2014 10:28 PM)AndreWhere Wrote: It's amazing how many of these I hadn't even heard of.
"CenturyLink" - an $18 billion dollar per year conglomerate built on a foundation of $35 billion in debt, headquartered in a southern backwater town. It's like WorldCom II.
Centurylink's CEO & President, Glen Post, is a LaTech grad
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
Sooo. What's the deal with WV?
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-23-2014 11:12 PM)Fatalisk Wrote: Sooo. What's the deal with WV?
West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc, a not-for-profit firm operating the teaching hospitals of West Virginia University with hospitals located throughout the state, has the largest revenues in the state.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z35WoCY1wV
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2014 11:41 PM by CoachMaclid.)
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-23-2014 11:12 PM)Fatalisk Wrote: Sooo. What's the deal with WV?
Not to sound ignorant, but our national government has killed the coal industry in WV.
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Okay thanks guys.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
Another cool map by the same group apparently:
Largest employers by state:
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-23-2014 11:41 PM)Surbadger Wrote: (06-23-2014 11:12 PM)Fatalisk Wrote: Sooo. What's the deal with WV?
Not to sound ignorant, but our national government has killed the coal industry in WV.
Mountain top removal did far more damage to the coal industry, at least in terms of workforce. The coal industry pitched mountain top removal as the only way to protect coal jobs in the state, but when it got underway, they got rid of a huge amount of workers because you only need a handful of people compared to underground mining. Dynamite and heavy machinery can take the place of dozens of people.
Natural gas is the next biggest reason for coal's decline. It's cleaner, more easily accessible, easier and cheaper to transport, and cheap (at least right now). The absolute worst thing that happened to the coal industry was fracking. Many coal plants in the U.S. were slated to be retired regardless of federal requirements because they were 60+ years old and only 30-40% efficient. With the abundance of natural gas due to fracking, many companies accelerated the schedule for retirement to move to natural gas plants that are far more efficient and don't have costly cleanup and storage cost for a toxic byproduct. In NC, we're now facing $10 billion in cleanup costs for coal ash....a fee that will absolutely be passed onto consumers. With natural gas, you burn it and its gone.
WV's over-reliance on the coal industry has killed the state far more than anything else. The state never tried to diversify the economy and never really re-invested in attracting talent or new industries. Now the coal industry is a shell of its former self and it doesn't have the talent or amenities to bring 21st century jobs to the state. 17% of the population has a college degree. No high-wage company is ever going to give WV serious consideration for that reason alone.
The smart thing would have been to levy a fee for coal production per ton in the state and re-invested that money into infrastructure, modernization, education, and corporate incentives to lure new industries to the state.
You should blame local and state lawmakers, and technological advancements, for WV's demise far more than you should blame the federal government.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-23-2014 11:41 PM)Surbadger Wrote: (06-23-2014 11:12 PM)Fatalisk Wrote: Sooo. What's the deal with WV?
Not to sound ignorant, but our national government has killed the coal industry in WV.
1) This statement has nothing to do with the subject matter, as the vast majority (all?) of coal companies are not headquartered in WV and probably would not show up on something like this as a result.
2) When making statements such as this, please tell the whole story in that the primary factors in WV coal's recent decline also include market factors (rock bottom natural gas prices, consecutive mild winters/summers until this past winter, etc.). While government policies aren't helping, implying that they're the sole cause of coal mines shutting down is disingenuous.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
I can't wait for the federal government to go down into Louisiana, do its job, and kill the oil industry.
I have limited sympathy for the people who are affected. If you barely finished high school, and live in Hattiesburg, but make $82,000 per year (the figure one rig worker shared with my date and me repeatedly one evening at a bar), then you ought to realize that something's out-of-line and will eventually get corrected.
What's "out-of-line" is the fact that the oil companies aren't adequately paying for the ecological damage they cause, and they pass the resultant profits on to their employees... who are thus damned sure to pull the right levers in the voting booth.
Of course, the vast majority of us don't work as pelican-lubricators, and the inevitable result of the electoral process is that the ill-gotten gains will, over time, dry up. The truly worthy adapt. Those who don't get exactly what they deserve, maybe more. If it were up to me, a lot of those people would face criminal charges for the pervasive disregard for environmental regulations they exhibit in their work.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
Costco has more revenue than Microsoft? Interesting.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-24-2014 11:22 AM)MWC Tex Wrote: Costco has more revenue than Microsoft? Interesting.
Costco does about 100 billion in revenue.
MS is around 80.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-24-2014 10:40 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: I can't wait for the federal government to go down into Louisiana, do its job, and kill the oil industry.
I have limited sympathy for the people who are affected. If you barely finished high school, and live in Hattiesburg, but make $82,000 per year (the figure one rig worker shared with my date and me repeatedly one evening at a bar), then you ought to realize that something's out-of-line and will eventually get corrected.
What's "out-of-line" is the fact that the oil companies aren't adequately paying for the ecological damage they cause, and they pass the resultant profits on to their employees... who are thus damned sure to pull the right levers in the voting booth.
Of course, the vast majority of us don't work as pelican-lubricators, and the inevitable result of the electoral process is that the ill-gotten gains will, over time, dry up. The truly worthy adapt. Those who don't get exactly what they deserve, maybe more. If it were up to me, a lot of those people would face criminal charges for the pervasive disregard for environmental regulations they exhibit in their work.
There is definitely overpayment in the petroleum industry for certain positions.
A friend of mine worked for an oil company on a pipeline construction project. His job was to walk along the pipeline "inspecting" it and putting up warning signs. Inspecting it according to him was mostly him walking through the woods playing on his smart phone.
He made almost $500/day. A job that required no more skill than working fast food, yet he was making six figures.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-24-2014 10:40 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: I can't wait for the federal government to go down into Louisiana, do its job, and kill the oil industry.
I have limited sympathy for the people who are affected. If you barely finished high school, and live in Hattiesburg, but make $82,000 per year (the figure one rig worker shared with my date and me repeatedly one evening at a bar), then you ought to realize that something's out-of-line and will eventually get corrected.
What's "out-of-line" is the fact that the oil companies aren't adequately paying for the ecological damage they cause, and they pass the resultant profits on to their employees... who are thus damned sure to pull the right levers in the voting booth.
Of course, the vast majority of us don't work as pelican-lubricators, and the inevitable result of the electoral process is that the ill-gotten gains will, over time, dry up. The truly worthy adapt. Those who don't get exactly what they deserve, maybe more. If it were up to me, a lot of those people would face criminal charges for the pervasive disregard for environmental regulations they exhibit in their work.
I don't want to argue the merits of ecology vs energy production, but your position is weakened because you are probably using electricity produced by burning coal so you can surf the web.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-24-2014 11:51 AM)Nugget49er Wrote: (06-24-2014 10:40 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: I can't wait for the federal government to go down into Louisiana, do its job, and kill the oil industry.
I have limited sympathy for the people who are affected. If you barely finished high school, and live in Hattiesburg, but make $82,000 per year (the figure one rig worker shared with my date and me repeatedly one evening at a bar), then you ought to realize that something's out-of-line and will eventually get corrected.
What's "out-of-line" is the fact that the oil companies aren't adequately paying for the ecological damage they cause, and they pass the resultant profits on to their employees... who are thus damned sure to pull the right levers in the voting booth.
Of course, the vast majority of us don't work as pelican-lubricators, and the inevitable result of the electoral process is that the ill-gotten gains will, over time, dry up. The truly worthy adapt. Those who don't get exactly what they deserve, maybe more. If it were up to me, a lot of those people would face criminal charges for the pervasive disregard for environmental regulations they exhibit in their work.
I don't want to argue the merits of ecology vs energy production, but your position is weakened because you are probably using electricity produced by burning coal so you can surf the web.
I don't know where he lives, but if it is in Mississippi, probably not. Less than 1/4 of Miss electricity is produced by coal and nuclear combined. Most of it comes from natural gas.
That's a bad argument anyway. Just because someone doesn't really have any option doesn't mean they have to be happy with things are. If everyone applied that logic to everything in life, nothing would ever change.
That's like telling someone if they're complaining about traffic while contributing to that traffic they can't want better infrastructure to alleviate the traffic.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
The link is not working for me, but I always thought it was United Bank.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-24-2014 11:59 AM)Niner National Wrote: (06-24-2014 11:51 AM)Nugget49er Wrote: (06-24-2014 10:40 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: I can't wait for the federal government to go down into Louisiana, do its job, and kill the oil industry.
I have limited sympathy for the people who are affected. If you barely finished high school, and live in Hattiesburg, but make $82,000 per year (the figure one rig worker shared with my date and me repeatedly one evening at a bar), then you ought to realize that something's out-of-line and will eventually get corrected.
What's "out-of-line" is the fact that the oil companies aren't adequately paying for the ecological damage they cause, and they pass the resultant profits on to their employees... who are thus damned sure to pull the right levers in the voting booth.
Of course, the vast majority of us don't work as pelican-lubricators, and the inevitable result of the electoral process is that the ill-gotten gains will, over time, dry up. The truly worthy adapt. Those who don't get exactly what they deserve, maybe more. If it were up to me, a lot of those people would face criminal charges for the pervasive disregard for environmental regulations they exhibit in their work.
I don't want to argue the merits of ecology vs energy production, but your position is weakened because you are probably using electricity produced by burning coal so you can surf the web.
I don't know where he lives, but if it is in Mississippi, probably not. Less than 1/4 of Miss electricity is produced by coal and nuclear combined. Most of it comes from natural gas.
That's a bad argument anyway. Just because someone doesn't really have any option doesn't mean they have to be happy with things are. If everyone applied that logic to everything in life, nothing would ever change.
That's like telling someone if they're complaining about traffic while contributing to that traffic they can't want better infrastructure to alleviate the traffic.
Mississippi has a big coal-fired power plant in Gulfport. I worked there, many years ago. The same company that owns that plant is currently building a massive (multi-billion-dollar) "coal gasification" facility in some place called "Kemper, MS".
And I really don't have a problem with any of that... those plants are some of the biggest capital investments ever made in Mississippi, private or public. Coal is just another energy source. It has its pros and its cons. We also have a lot of coal in the USA.
The important thing is that coal (or oil, or whatever) be used responsibly, and that's what didn't happen with offshore oil in Louisiana. The true costs associated with extracting and using that energy source were never paid by the people who profited from those activities. They cut broad channels through the swamp, spilled oil everywhere, etc. and still haven't contributed significantly to coastal restoration.
Yeah, BP paid damages for their spill. A lot of that money (all of it?) has gone to plugging operating deficits run by the State of Louisiana- not to coastal remediation projects). And yet the Governor of Louisiana actually just signed legislation retroactively outlawing certain suits against the oil companies that were filed in an effort to recover for coastal damage. That's why I sympathize a whole lot more with the (very gentle) federal efforts to slow offshore drilling a lot more than the "drill, baby, drill" local politicians, who ought to know better.
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RE: What is your state's largest company by revenue? Map included.
(06-24-2014 08:28 PM)AndreWhere Wrote: (06-24-2014 11:59 AM)Niner National Wrote: (06-24-2014 11:51 AM)Nugget49er Wrote: (06-24-2014 10:40 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: I can't wait for the federal government to go down into Louisiana, do its job, and kill the oil industry.
I have limited sympathy for the people who are affected. If you barely finished high school, and live in Hattiesburg, but make $82,000 per year (the figure one rig worker shared with my date and me repeatedly one evening at a bar), then you ought to realize that something's out-of-line and will eventually get corrected.
What's "out-of-line" is the fact that the oil companies aren't adequately paying for the ecological damage they cause, and they pass the resultant profits on to their employees... who are thus damned sure to pull the right levers in the voting booth.
Of course, the vast majority of us don't work as pelican-lubricators, and the inevitable result of the electoral process is that the ill-gotten gains will, over time, dry up. The truly worthy adapt. Those who don't get exactly what they deserve, maybe more. If it were up to me, a lot of those people would face criminal charges for the pervasive disregard for environmental regulations they exhibit in their work.
I don't want to argue the merits of ecology vs energy production, but your position is weakened because you are probably using electricity produced by burning coal so you can surf the web.
I don't know where he lives, but if it is in Mississippi, probably not. Less than 1/4 of Miss electricity is produced by coal and nuclear combined. Most of it comes from natural gas.
That's a bad argument anyway. Just because someone doesn't really have any option doesn't mean they have to be happy with things are. If everyone applied that logic to everything in life, nothing would ever change.
That's like telling someone if they're complaining about traffic while contributing to that traffic they can't want better infrastructure to alleviate the traffic.
Mississippi has a big coal-fired power plant in Gulfport. I worked there, many years ago. The same company that owns that plant is currently building a massive (multi-billion-dollar) "coal gasification" facility in some place called "Kemper, MS".
And I really don't have a problem with any of that... those plants are some of the biggest capital investments ever made in Mississippi, private or public. Coal is just another energy source. It has its pros and its cons. We also have a lot of coal in the USA.
The important thing is that coal (or oil, or whatever) be used responsibly, and that's what didn't happen with offshore oil in Louisiana. The true costs associated with extracting and using that energy source were never paid by the people who profited from those activities. They cut broad channels through the swamp, spilled oil everywhere, etc. and still haven't contributed significantly to coastal restoration.
Yeah, BP paid damages for their spill. A lot of that money (all of it?) has gone to plugging operating deficits run by the State of Louisiana- not to coastal remediation projects). And yet the Governor of Louisiana actually just signed legislation retroactively outlawing certain suits against the oil companies that were filed in an effort to recover for coastal damage. That's why I sympathize a whole lot more with the (very gentle) federal efforts to slow offshore drilling a lot more than the "drill, baby, drill" local politicians, who ought to know better.
There is also a bill on the house floor proposed by Rep Simone Champaigne dealing with the BP Oil Spill money, requiring it to go to it's intended use.
There are many over paid employees in the GOM, but there is a reason for that. Not everyone is willing to be away from hone for half of the years living on a steal island in the middle of an ocean. Not to mention that it is a very dangerous and high stress level job. There is someone in the gulf that either is killed or severely injured daily.
It doesn't take a genius to do some of the jobs out here, but people are paid accordingly. I have personally handled over $10 million in completion services this year alone and I think I am underpaid. For you land lovers, you may think that we get paid too much for doing just a little. But everyone is afforded that same opportunity if you so choose to work in the Oil Field.
Offshore drilling and completion workers make anywhere from $65,000-$500,000 per year depending on the complexity or specialization of their job. So don't hate, participate!
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