The Kaiser System
<p>April 20, 2020, was an unimaginable day for most Tulsans. An essential economic engine had suddenly been thrown into reverse. For the first time in history, the price of oil plummeted so far that futures went negative. Though Tulsa is no longer the oil capital it once was, the oil and gas industry still provides income for 150,000 Oklahomans. News of the price collapse stunned the community.</p>
<p>“There will be some very big problems,” former Tulsa mayor Dewey Bartlett told <em>Tulsa World</em>. “The oil and gas industry has been one of the most philanthropic-oriented groups. That will immediately go away.”</p>
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