Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x

HighWizard notes the upcoming release, on Thursday, of a report by the US Geological Survey on the Bakken Formation. This is an oil field covering 200,000 square miles and underlying parts of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan. A geologist who began surveying the field, before dying in 2000, believed it may hold as much as 1 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Later estimates have ranged to the hundreds of billions of barrels. Such a reserve would go a long way toward securing US energy independence.

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Re:We have more oil?

[symbolset]

Perhaps you can explain--exactly under what circumstances do nuclear weapons not help?

That's easy - when you wouldn't use them and everybody knows it.

did I win a prize?

Re:No NAFTA - No Saskachewan Oil

[KillaBeave]

And without our SUVs, pickups, tanks and general bloodlust who would Canada sell the oil to? 33 mil people, 1/2 with sled dogs, isn't that big of a market for oil you know.

We could probably just take it anyhow, like the South Park song goes ... "they're not even a real country anyway."
 
  j/k :)

Re:No NAFTA - No Saskachewan Oil

[GISGEOLOGYGEEK]

Must be time to burn down your whitehouse .... again