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.

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.

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil
reserve in the world.

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!

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?

Pass this along. If you don't take a little time to do this, then you
should stifle yourself the next time you complain about gas prices - by
doing NOTHING, you forfeit your right to complain.

By the way...this is all true. Check
it out at the link below!!!

There must have been a crap load of Dinosaurs on the planet 65million years ago, to make all that crude stuff.

Oil shales were deposited in a wide variety of environments including freshwater to saline ponds and lakes, epicontinental marine basins and related subtidal shelves. They were also deposited in shallow ponds or lakes associated with coal-forming peat in limnic and coastal swamp depositional environments. It is not surprising, therefore, that oil shales exhibit a wide range in organic and mineral composition. Most oil shales contain organic matter derived from varied types of marine and lacustrine algae, with some debris of land plants, depending upon the depositional environment and sediment sources.

There must have been a crap load of Dinosaurs on the planet 65million years ago, to make all that crude stuff.

I do how ever like the idea of not being depend on the middle east for oil, that is something we can do. anyway the links are some good info, there is many places we can get oil here in the US, but we dont have the HUGH areas so it would require too much moving stuff around and thats big money.

What we need are alternatives, compressed natural gas is something we could be using right this minute, and is something that we'd be independent on. Yet
the cost to retool equipment to work with it is outside what people are willing to pay given the glut of cheap oil. While nobody wants the cost of energy to
go up, it is the only way we're going to find a market solution to the problem.

Minus that, it'll take gov't intervention. Gov't funding of alternate infrastructure, and massive spending on energy programs. Back when this whole "recession"
started I was hoping we'd use some of the stimulus plan to build energy infrastructure, but instead we've basically just thrown it down a rat hole..

Linky:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... wind-power

The thing I really want to point out here, the "take-away" if you will, is the comparison and contrast between the reality you now know, and the reality posed
by the email you quoted. Why? Because that email uses a combination of scapegoat and strawman attacks to blame the energy issues on "environmentalists."
Reality is far more complex, but as you can clearly see, a large part of the problem actually comes from the industries themselves. Yet that is rarely brought
to attention.

We will never solve our problems if we can't identify their sources. I'm always left to wonder if the same entities that cause the problem also circulate ideas
like that in an effort to distract people away from a real solution.

why didnt they mandate they use some of this money to change the production lines? 90% of the cars could be switched over to diesel, sure they would need different engines and fuel management but it could have been done

Exactly why I was against government bailouts.

so bankrupt companies taking doleouts should rework all their assembly lines, designing new diesels on the fly? do you know how much time and money it takes to do that? and think of the reliability issues- a wholesale immediate switchover for automakers would be virtually impossible in good times and you want them to do it in bad ones? to save money?

Well they wouldnt have to rework all of their assembly lines, or designing new diesels on the fly. They could use allready made diesels, and it wouldnt take an outragous amount of work. My point wasnt for the auto makers to save money, it was to put the money they were given to good use, not buy more corp. jets and get bigger bounuses. It was also to point out how are FAILING auto makers are 10+ years behind on tech. Not only in gas mileage but also in quality. Yet they wonder why more and more people are buying cars from outside the US.