These are not oil-producing states, and Maine is way up North.

Since January, oil-producing states have been placing 20 percent of their oil revenue into a national defense fund.

The report said output in all oil-producing states was declining rapidly.

Representatives from oil-producing states don't want higher energy taxes.

In fact, many oil-producing states do not even disclose how much they earn.

Supposedly, about one-third of that went to the four major oil-producing states.

The Fed kept interest rates fairly high, and the local recession in the oil-producing states got worse instead of better.

That region's economy remains burdened by problems in the oil-producing states.

A price increase would help counter what a new study by the institute says is continuing trouble in the economies of oil-producing states.

A war could also set back Iraq's oil production and destabilize other oil-producing states.