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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.
Sorry Canada. You're like a really cool older well behaved cousin to the US but if you have oil it's all over. Good thing Bush can't read, just be careful about Cheney!
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Give it a rest al gore.
After taking a geology course, you learn that green house gases are the least of our problems. The worst that's gono happen is that the human race will be wiped out. Big woop. Evolution will fix that in a couple million years.
Gatta look at the BIGGER picture!
And in a related story, there have been rumors of a spike in insurgent activity on the US/Canadian border and the latest NIE contains information suggesting the native population's efforts to enrich uranium. Vice President Cheney is reportedly sending executive sales forces to the area but declined to comment citing national security concerns. Back to you, Lasko.
You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford...
Oh, forgot to comment on the frakkin' article:
- 10x of "almost nothing" is still almost nothing. The USA doesn't have many reserves left, because we already burned them up in the late 1800s and early 1900s. (I speak as a citizen of a former oil-rich state; Pennsylvania; now a poor state.)
- If we were smart, we would SAVE our oil, drain the Mideast dry (circa 2050), and then say, "Hey guys; we've got oil over in America" and charge $1000 a barrel. We'd be rich. (But of course, we're short-term thinkers; we won't do that.)
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
and in other news Obama offers Montana and the Dakotas to Canada to show how he can bring countries together.
-- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
You mean the place in Utah that contains this piece of natural beauty was spared from being a pincushion for multinational oil companies? Thank you Clinton! You just made me a fan. Sorry that the fuel for your gas guzzling landrover is too expensive for you to make your 80 mile commute each day. Maybe the next non-democratically elected president can start a war with another middle east country and fix that for you.
Just callin' it like I see it.