inside energy's emily guerin takes us on a tour of oil bust alley, a short stretch of highway where the boom and bust of the oil industry plays out. >> reporter: i've spent two years reporting on the bakken oilfield in north dakota. i've seen it when it was booming, back in 2014, and now, when it's busting. there's one highway in the oilfield town of dickinson,ow highway 22, where you can see the entire boom and bust story. so we're going on a road trip through oil bust alley to see what we can learn in this five- mile stretch of road about how a community changes when the pric of oil crashes. let's start with the obvious losers: business directly involved in the drilling and production of oil. so i'm standing in front a field of stacked drilling rigs there are about 27 back there, we just counted. and that's about the same amount that are actively drilling fort oil in north dakota. two years ago when the price of oil was high, there were over 180. and it's a sign of how much things have slowed down here inw the oilfield. every time a drilling rig gets idled, about 120 people lose their