Tennessee hills spout Texas tea (OIL THAT IS)

The Tennessean ^ | 4/8/04 | Naomi Snyder

[GailA]

Amid sloping hills dotted with grazing Black Angus cattle in Pickett and Fentress counties, the most valuable money-making venture may be underground.

Last month, a Kentucky company hit oil on a farm in Pickett County. The pressure of oil naturally bubbling to the surface has been so great that the producers have been unable to remove the drill for the past 25 days.

[GailA]

fyi

[GeronL]

This is great news. I hope they find tons and tons of oil.

[neefer]

But it will endanger the natural habitat of the Black Angus. (end of sarcasm)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Pickett County, TN is right on the Kentucky border, about 100 miles or so east of Nashville.

[yawningotter]

Breaking news-Big oil strike in Tennessee near the town of Bugtussle.

[Army Air Corps]

You forgot to include the Speckled Bellied Eastern Seersucker - only a handful are left. Your contribution can help....

[LRS]

They have been striking oil in the general area of the Big South Fork of Cumberland River ever since the early 1800's. The oil, at first, was the result of accicidents, as people were actually boring for salt water, and struck "Devil's Tar" instead.

[FreedomCalls]

What about the snail darter?

[bayourod]

Does this mean that we can go ahead and put Tennessee in the Republican column for November?

[Walkingfeather]

HUH? How can this be... why in the sixties Ol' Jeb Clampet was out a shooting at some raccoons and up from the ground came a bubblin Crude.... Oil that is... Black gold... texas tea

[Smartass]

Is this another Al Gore Invention?

[Verginius Rufus]

Pickett County went for Bush in 2000. It usually votes Republican (although Clinton narrowly outpolled Dole because of Perot). It's the smallest county in population, but there are 3 other Tennessee counties which are smaller geographically.

[RushingWater]

Maybe the Oilers should have kept their name sake.

[GATOR NAVY]

With prices climbing to a range of $35 to $38 a barrel, there is more incentive for investors to plunk down the risk money to explore and drill new wells.

The Chicken Littles who run around screaming "we're running out of oil" have never understood this concept. There's of plenty of oil that's not economical to recover now but will be when prices go up.

[vpintheak]

This is really cool news. The only thing that pisses me off is that it will be OK to drill there but not in Alaska. Too much public owned land up here, and too many lefty Congressmen and women meddling in our affairs.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Black gold... texas tea

Tea for Texas,

Tea for Tennessee.

[Atchafalaya]

Best dart his ass on away from there.

[Susannah]

There doesn't appear to be much public owned land in Alaska in comparison to most states.

[adam_az]

"But it will endanger the natural habitat of the Black Angus. (end of sarcasm)"

No no no, think of it as removing a pollutant from the earth! ;) Oil drilling is good for the environment!

[eddiespaghetti]

Twenty-something years ago, when I was in Kent, Michigan (on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan), I noticed that the shoreline was full of what looked like black powder. I asked my host what it was, and he said that it was from oil deposits in wells below Lake Michigan (that had not been drilled for fear of spilling oil into the lake).

Anybody know of oil deposits in Michigan?