OIL

http://bakkenshale.net/bakkenshalemap.html ^

[thackney]

The Bakken is mostly oil shale. Less than 1% is produeable by drilling and pumping. Most will require retorting the shale.

That said, the less than 1% has already made North Dakota the 4th largest state in oil production.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Here's an official government link to the Green River Formation that contains some 1.5 trillion barrels (in shale).

[Recon Dad]

Right on brother! We have many great energy experts on FR.

[BOBTHENAILER]

In ND (the only state of the union to show an INCREASE in jobs), operators have been reporting completions in the Three Forks and Sanish formations, that are almost equivalent to the Bakken Shales. Both formations are in very close proximity, depth wise, to the Bakken.

[Will88]

The Bakken field is mostly oil shale. The amount that can be pumped directly without retorting the shale is estimated at 4.3 billion barrels. The Three Forks field lies beneath that and also has some pumpable oil.

Thanks. We often hear politicians say that energy is a matter of national defense, but they never put that into practice. I guess the environmental extremists keep many plans tangled up in court, but we should be developing recovery techniques for all these deposits of crude, shale and all others, and with tax and other incentives to work in the more difficult areas such as shale. And we should be exploring all offshore waters and promising inland areas.

Not even to mention the enormous new natural gas fields discovered, to add to the huge amount of natural gas we've already found in the US.

Maybe if enough Dims are removed from Congress and the WH in 2010 and 2012, the US can begin to pursue a policy that develops all promising energy sources (and stop using food crops for fuel).

[philman_36]

You haven’t answered my question.
I did, you apparently don't like the answer. That isn't my problem.
Please explain exactly what is tainted about what they have posted.
Do your own legwork...snopes debunked
Better get started early, there's plenty of their BS to wade through.
And if you don't know anything about Annenberg and Mr. Dunham then you've been living under a rock.

[Brown Deer]

I did, you apparently don't like the answer. That isn't my problem.

It is your problem because absolutely nothing that you said has anything to do with OIL!

[philman_36]

It is your problem because absolutely nothing that you said has anything to do with OIL!
It isn't my problem because, unlike you, I know better than to use two liberal websites as a source for anything!

[Doomonyou]

bfl

[Brown Deer]

You really are showing your ignorance because my source was the USGS. On top of that, you continue to make claims that there is something wrong with the other two links that I posted, yet so far you have been unable to discredit a single statement on either page. All you can say is that that they are owned by liberal people, so what they say is untrue. How can you be so completely ignorant?

[philman_36]

You really are showing your ignorance because my source was the USGS.
I wasn't contesting your USGS source as you well know.
You're the one who is completely ignorant now because you're trying to conflate the two.

...you continue to make claims that there is something wrong with the other two links that I posted...
I sure am. That you don't know that both of those sites are unreliable is telling.

...so far you have been unable to discredit a single statement on either page.
I don't need to. Their reputation precedes them.

All you can say is that that they are owned by liberal people, so what they say is untrue.
I said they don't perform their due diligence.

How can you be so completely ignorant?
How can you be so completely obtuse?

[Brown Deer]

I can’t believe that you posted links to a company that is in bed with 0bama!

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/21/technology/obama_google.fortune/

Surely, you can do better than that!

[philman_36]

I can’t believe that you posted links to a company that is in bed with 0bama!
WOW! Obama & Google (a love story) [Is the romance starting to sour?] What a title!
Are you in bed and under the sheets too?

Would you like me to use a different search engine?
Yahoo...snopes debunked / Annenberg.
dogpile...snopes debunked / Annenberg

Surely, you can do better than that!
I sure can and I just did. Is every search engine in bed with you two?
Surely, you can do better than www.snopes.com and www.factcheck.org.
But then again, I may be wrong.

[Brown Deer]

You still haven’t been able to debunk anything that I have said. Too bad! Keep trolling...

[philman_36]

You still haven’t been able to debunk anything that I have said.
You haven't said anything.

[Brown Deer]

You can’t read either, can you?

[philman_36]

You can’t read either, can you?
A rhetorical question...how quaint.