We're actually fairly rich with lowgrade low flow oil. Every single county in the lower peninsula has working oil wells.
I sent a set of samples from the Kingman AZ area and they are being used at Tech now. They are always excited to get things like that donated to them.
Like you said..there is trillions of dollars all there if they can just get the GD gubermint the hell outta the way. Think of it. This peninsula has vast Iron deposits, Some gold, some silver. a lot of copper, Timber up the wazoo, they have discovered oil on the Stonington Peninsula and we have to rely on boot licking from the gubermint to survive. I say we split this government and create our own. What the hell? We have shipping on INT waters just about year round now and all that wealth, what do we need with a government that is broke and dragging us down the hole?
I found this bit: WOW! That is one hell of a lot of copper!
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/redmetal/history.html
“I say we split this government and create our own.”
I’m familiar with what you’re saying. There have been a number of movements to split the UP away from lower Michigan going back to 1910.
Calumet, during its mining heyday, came very close to being named the new capital of Michigan.
Imagine the fat-ass politicians freezing their butts off in Calumet, under 250 inches of Lake Superior every winter. LOL!
I wandered into Michigan for no particular reason in 1977 after I left the military and discovered the KLA, the Keweenaw Liberation Front, at a Calumet bar called the Grey Hackle. A bunch of vets made it up just to piss off the jack-offs in Washington. I met a number of vets who are still my friends today.
The paranoid feds sent up a bunch of 50 IQ FBI stupidos to check it out. These bozo FBI morons took it seriously.
Long story short - the FBI still won’t admit that they’re fools who were fooled.