Exploration for and utilization of oil from the Bakken region will br fought tooth and nail by the left. There are two  fundamental reasons. They don't want any evil oil used. Since they cannot control Mid-East production they will do everything they can to prevent US production. Secondly by forcing the US to rely more and more on foreign oil they damage the dollar further increasing the cost of gas, hurt the economy and thereby undermine the President to prepare the path for the Obamessiah. 

Considering the election is in a matter of months and the time it would take to actually start pulling oil out of the bakken formation is measured in years I think thats a bit too much conspiracy theory.

 

With current technology how much of this formation is actually recoverable anyway?  USGS estimates it at about 20 billion recoverable barrels I last read somewhere...of course that was off of a newspaper article and not an official document.  If true though thats hardly a Saudi Arabia.  Anyone have better info?

The "Bakken Conspiracy" has been going on for many years in its no ANWAR nor offshore drilling and no nuclear power manifestations in anticipation of and facilitating a Democratic return to the White House. With the favorable turn in Iraq the Left and its MSM enablers are reliving the glory days of "It's the economy stupid". The Messiah today just happens to be Obama. He/She could have as easily been Clinton, Edwards, Biden or your neo-Marxist du jour.

Several sources put this field at around 500 billion barrels. That's with a "B". This field has been well known for a long time and it has taken new technology in oil exploration have improved our ability to pull this resource. The MSM and those who oppose US oil exploration are down playing this reserve number and in fact are resisting opening Bakken tracks that happen to be located on public land. Bakken, new fields in the Gulf of Mexico, ANWAR, and off the West Coast of California total more untapped reserves than anyone can imagine. The world is awash in oil.

 

This circumstance we find ourselves in today is the result of a determined effort on the part of people inside our country to make our economy less capable. Gov'ts interference in the world oil market is the cause of $135.00 barrel oil, not obscene profits. 

 

 

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Rocky

There fore what? Crash the world economy? in particular the US economy?

 

Like it or not our economy runs on oil. To keep its cost down we need to allow our private industry to explore and extract this resource without interference from the Gov't. Period. Any deviation from that course raises costs for all products, causes truely terrible political backlash, and subverts our nation's destiny to a bunch of hitleresc thugs.

 

Food for fuel has demonstrated its predictable effect of promoting starvation. Solar energy does not put out enough energy to satisfy world demand without blanketing the planet with solar panels, wind is the worst possible on the local environment as well as never available "on demand", The list goes on.

 

Don't buy the hype drill the oil, build the nuke plants, and tell the arabs to sod off.

 

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Rocky