[mdlug-discuss] [Fwd: OIL - $5.gal Check this out]

[Aaron Kulkis]

amkowalczyk wrote:
> http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/bakken.asp
> 

You fail.


ANYTHING concerning politics, Snopes is unreliable for anything other
than to toe the leftist's line.

> On 3/9/11 6:22 PM, Aaron Kulk



is wrote:
>>> From a friend of mine who works in a government natural
>> resources department.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: OIL - $5.gal Check this out
>> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:42:49 -0800 (PST)
>> From: xxxxxxxx
>> To: xxxxxx
>> Subject: OIL - $5.gal Check this out
>>
>> OIL---you better be sitting down when you read this ! !
>>
>> You "will" pay $5 a gallon + again and you won't complain
>> loud enough to make a  difference, RIGHT!
>>
>> ________________________________
>> Here's an astonishing read.  Important and verifiable information:
>>
>> About 6 months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil
>> and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. 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 2008 that
>> only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big.
>> It was a revis ed report (hadn't been updated since 1995) 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 Legislature's  financial analyst.
>>
>> "This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil
>> field found in the past 56 years," reportsThe Pittsburgh Post
>> Gazette.  It's a formation known as the Williston Basin , but
>> is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.'  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 break-
>> through 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. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor,
>> then this next one should - because it's from 2006!
>>
>> 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 drilling?
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> - 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 ofloony left 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 yet?  Now, while you're thinking about it,
>> do this:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every
>> one of you sent this to every one in your address book.
>>
>> By the way...this is all true. Check it out at the link below!!!
>> GOOGLE it, or follow this link.  It will blow your mind.
>> http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
>>
>>
>>
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