Gas Prices: Who's to Blame?

[Madman]

I know!

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

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!

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 .

Liberals are the kind of people that would try to make peace with people who would rather see us dead and destroy our economy. That's sleeping with the enemy.

I, for one, do not want to see this country spiral down into economic chaos because of foriegn dependency. The oil is there and all we have to do is get it.

Originally Posted by Madman

I know!

Liberals are the kind of people that would try to make peace with people who would rather see us dead and destroy our economy. That's sleeping with the enemy.

I, for one, do not want to see this country spiral down into economic chaos because of foriegn dependency. The oil is there and all we have to do is get it.

The 503 billion barrels in the Bakken Formation has been debunked repeatedly.....most recently by the USGS numbers you cited - 3-4 billion barrels......enough to supply less than one year at current consumption rates.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2...as_oil_bonanza

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Redux

That has all be debunked repeatedly.....most recently by the USGS numbers you cited - 3-4 billion barrels in the Bakken Foundation......enough to supply less than one year at current consumption rates.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2...as_oil_bonanza

Of course it has. Gotta saved the bugs and Elm trees.

Originally Posted by Madman

Of course it has. Gotta saved the bugs and Elm trees.

Hey...I was just using your own USGS cite...3 to 4.3 billion barrels in the Bakken Formation...no where near the 500+ billion barrels that was reported by a speculator wanting to sell shares in an energy investment scam.

The most recent inventory:

These 11 areas (including Bakken Formation) encompass 99 million acres of Federal lands and contain an estimated 21 billion barrels of oil...

http://www.blm.gov/epca/

21 billion barrels "technically recoverable" (at what cost) and a current consumption rate of 7 billion barrels/year.

And that is your best solution?

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Redux

Hey...I was just using your own USGS cite...3 to 4.3 billion barrels in the Bakken Formation...no where near the 500+ billion barrels that was reported by a speculator wanting to sell shares in an energy investment scam.

The most recent inventory:

21 billion barrels "technically recoverable" (at what cost) and a current consumption rate of 7 billion barrels/year.

And that is your best solution?

Are you telling me I'm wrong? Well, I'll be dipped in shit.

Fuck it... Let's take over Iran then. Somebody needs to stop that asshole before he starts WW III.

Shale oil... we got lots of that. More than the entire world oil reserve combined.

[Spexxvet]

It's stupid to continue with a petroleum based energy plan. Conservatives need to take off their blinders and try to learn something.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

It's stupid to continue with a petroleum based energy plan. Conservatives need to take off their blinders and try to learn something.

We have... Never follow a liberal..

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Madman

We have... Never follow a liberal..

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Madman

Liberals are the kind of people that would try to make peace with people who would rather see us dead and destroy our economy. That's sleeping with the enemy.

I made the mistake of studying the Civil War back in the day. Your nonsense (and a fair amount of the liberal nonsense) is just the kind of representation that makes a country so divided as to be ungovernable. Your's is the equivalent of: Conservatives are the kind of people that would continue to send piles of cash to people who would rather see us dead and destroy our economy. That's sleeping with the enemy.