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Old 10-10-2008, 09:32 AM
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The "motherload" maybe?

This came from another forum where the guy posted he recieved this in an email.... i got kinda excited about it!

USGS Release: 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate— (4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM)

The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) that only scientists and oilmen knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since '95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota ; western S outh Dakota; and extreme eastern Montana ... check THIS out:

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discove ry since Alaska 's Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.

'When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.' says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyst.

'This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years,' reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada . For years, U.S.oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological break through ha s opened up the Bakken's massive reserves... and we now have acces s of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!

That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight.

2. [And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO, people!]

U.S.Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006 Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush
mandated its extraction.
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates :

-8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
-18-times as much oil as Iraq
-21-times as much oil as Kuwait
-22-times as much oil as Iran
-500-times as much oil as Yemen- and it's a ll right here in the

Western United States .

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this!? Because the democrats, environmentalists and left wing republicans have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil.

James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels. Untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.
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but yet are economy is in the tanks.................i wish i could be a politician there so smart!!
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Because the democrats, environmentalists and left wing republicans have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil.
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OMFG, when did this come out and I wish it was on the front page of news websites.
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I thought they had drills near Billings ??? Maybe I'm wrong.
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Everyone in Saudi Arabia drives a Mercedes. They are very very wealthy. It would be nice to be rich lol
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Holy s**t! I wonder what $16 a barrel will do to the cost of a gallon of diesel? Should be next to nothing at the price! Know we just need to get McCain and Palin in the White house so that we have a chance at tapping this resource.
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I thought they had drills near Billings ??? Maybe I'm wrong.
They do. And they also have rigs in williston north dakota. most of what they are drilling for at the moment is natural gas...
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I wonder if extracting it might affect this: Yellowstone Supervolcano

I don't have any idea; just curious.
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Doubt it, that would kind of be like saying drilling off the Washington/Oregon Coast would cause Mt St. Helens to erupt.
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