New US Oil Reserve?
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- jetSkii0
The U.S. has more than enough oil in America to provide for its own. Obtaining anymore oil in the Middle East would control the global usage and need for it. Maintaining it's own reservoir of oil, while using up another country's natural resources seems ideal.
However since America is now under control of International Bankers who it owes Trillions of dollars to, the country is basically forced into war over oil.
- numbers0
Who gives a shite?
- *shitnumbers
- Aside from you?
plenty of people.Orbit - the shiite's?SteveJobs
- Point takenabettertomorrow
- bjladams0
friend of mine is big on this- apparently its in colorado. but instead of it being just a giant pool of oil underground, it's some kind of porous rock that has soaked up and retained oil. he says that there's more there than in any reserve in the world, but that there has been no efficient way of extracting the oil from the rock. of course... this is what i'm told over beers... it's not backed by fox news or al gore.
- ernexbcn0
Beavis and Butthead found one in an episode.
- utopian0
Mission Accomplished!
- raf0
Paradoxically, the sooner we're out of oil, the sooner we move to more effective energy sources.
Hence, excessive oil use is pro-ecological.
- love this.... my V8 thunderbird is happy too....vaxorcist
- Spock thinks this isn't logical.Dodecahedron
- Dodecahedron0
Drilling for oil is more polluting than actually using it.
- fooler20
so we went to war in the middle east for nothing?
runs to the POLITICS thread.
- rosem0
thanks, for some reason my similar search was bringing up nothing...
- JSK0
In the next 30 days the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) will release a new report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken Oil Formation that covers North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Montana. With new horizontal drilling technology it is believed that from 175 to 500 billion barrels of recoverable oil are held in this 200,000 square mile reserve that was initially discovered in 1951. The USGS did an initial study back in 1999 that estimated 400 billion recoverable barrels were present but with prices bottoming out at $10 a barrel back then the report was dismissed because of the higher cost of horizontal drilling techniques that would be needed, estimated at $20-$40 a barrel.
- JSK0
- moIdero0
no matter where it is, its always "ours"
- rosem
I was talking with my family last night over dinner, and my uncle mentioned the US recently found a huge oil reserve somewhere out west — maybe under Utah?
I tried finding some news articles on this and can't find anything. Anyone know what he would be talking about?