[chief_bigfoot]

"Are our EPA and environazis going to give the Chicoms drilling operations the same anal exams that drove our companies out of business?"

Evidently somebody is getting their 'cut'. From the Wash.Times

" The cost of drilling in Colorado has nearly doubled since last year, EnCana officials said. Rates increased from $8,500 per day to $14,000 per day in one year."

http://www.washtimes.com/business/20050710-115332-2183r_page2.htm

[Smokin' Joe]

" The cost of drilling in Colorado has nearly doubled since last year, EnCana officials said. Rates increased from $8,500 per day to $14,000 per day in one year."

It is all over, not just Colorado. We don't have the 'Queen's Minerals' here in the States, so prices fluctuate more than they do in Canada. So do wages.

I have worked in the Pieance Basin, on an American Rig, with American crews. The crap about Americans not being able to do the job is pure, unadulterated Bullsh!t.