A car can be burning oil but still getting you from point A to point B.  

On a side note, I am looking for any deals in 53204 particularly around the 9th & Mineral area. 

Oil is making everything boom and its making this fairly new investor very impatient!

Upside end result will be 2 new bathrooms and new kitchen, new windows, new floors updated plumbing and electrical panels, new oil tank outside all for cost of materials gas travel and costs of 3 - 4 months rent etc.

And mopping with some oil soap is quicker and cheaper than shampooing carpet.

I have already chosen a career and am employed at an oil refinery in Philadelphia.

I live in Odessa Tx where we have a housing crisis at the moment because of the oil boom.

Of course, there are several heavy oil producing countries, such as Venezuela and Russia, who need high crude oil prices to sustain their weak economies.  

I am an asset manager with primary assets being RE related (mostly small MF and mineral rights). 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-oklahoma-wyoming-oil-woes-start-to-hit-hard-1461749401Just read this article in the Wall Street journal, basically talking about correlation between drop in oil prices and credit card/auto/mortgage delinquencies.