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from an email i recieved..




About 6 months ago I was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. This is out of conte xt, but this is the actual question as asked. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer, how much oil does the U.S. have in the ground." Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "more than all the Middle East put together." Please read below.




The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since '95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota ; western South Dakota ; and extreme eastern Montana .... check THIS out:

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska 's Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.

'When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea..' says Terry Johnson, the Montana Leg islature's financial analyst.

'This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years' reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada .. For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's massive reserves.... and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!

That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years straight.

2. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO!

U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006


Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drillin g?

They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

20- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen
- and it's all right here in the Western United States ..

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy.....WHY?

James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.

Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price - even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, - it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?
Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you're thinking about it ....
 

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If that is true, I wouldn't expect any drastic changes, the government is very greedy w/oil and typically will just leave it there for a rainy day.

They spend millions of dollars using turbine engines to keep the oil from bursting through the ground in Alaska, if we won't take that, I'm very doubtful they'll start digging here.......
 


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the oilfields are coming back around here...
they used to be booming but then it all went to s**t.

i got laid off last january and its finally starting to turn around..

the alaska oil is a different story entirely than what we deal with here in the rocky mountains...

plus i just figured people should be informed..
 

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Good news for you man, get out of that mine and into the fields!
 


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ya gotta get some real money again...
 

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coal mining is nasty s**t man, and now being a daddy make sure you stick around for a while ;)
 

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America is such an awesome country to live in :thumbs up.
 

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If i had an opp to become canadian I would in a heartbeat no joke.....
 

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I mean honestly, who cares about N and S Dakota anyways?. :lol:
 

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^^ I do!
























Not! I dread driving through those states..................
 

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thats the worst part about living in colorado...
if u go anywhere u have to drive through kansas utah new mexico and those other shitty states above...
wyoming montana blah blah..
and colorado isnt the coolest state, but in the middle of all that s**t, it rocks..

and no there was just a think saying to forward it to everyone shane, so i just ended it there..
 

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WY and MT

wake me when were done, seriously it take 8 f**kin hours to go through 3/4ths of MT from IL to WA

I love CO i go boarding there about every year.
 

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our oil will be worth so much more when the rest of the world runs out. planning for the future?
 

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f**k the rest of the world...

u should hit me up next time u go boarding here shane..
im not far from any ski slopes..
 

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f**k the rest of the world...

u should hit me up next time u go boarding here shane..
im not far from any ski slopes..
We get season passes at Breck/Key/Vail/Beav, if you're nearby i deff will
 

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im a couple hours from there but if ur taking me then...
hehe
its definately doable
 

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haha I'll be goin w/the rents they're takin my broke ass :D

My dad usually buys a season pass and we make a trip using his guest passes.
 


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