We can end our oil dependency.

Rackbuster

Senior Member
Recieved this email and it is interesting.

OIL - You might want to sit down when you read this !!!!!!

Cruz Construction started a division in North Dakota
just 6 months ago.

They sent every Kenworth (9 trucks) we had here in Alaska to North Dakota
and several drivers.

They just bought two new Kenworth's to add to that fleet; one being a Tri
Drive tractor and a new 65 ton lowboy to go with it.

They also bought two new cranes (one crawler & one rubber tired) for that
division.

Dave Cruz said they have moved more rigs in the last 6 months in ND than
Cruz Construction moved in Alaska in the last 6 years.

Williston is like a gold rush town; they moved one of our 40 man camps
down there since there are no rooms available.

Unemployment in ND is the lowest in the nation at 3.4 percent last I
checked.

See anything in the national news about how the oil industry is fueling
North Dakota 's economy?

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.."

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 revised 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 (5 billion barrels), 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 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.

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 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 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 can be verified. Check it out at the link below !!!!!!

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911 ;) >

Cruz Construction:
http://www.cruzconstruct.com/services..php
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Altamaha Stalker

Senior Member
:banginghe:banginghe

Sounds about right! We are going broke going to work. I have seen that about the oil out there before. Tree huggers have money and votes. That is the bottom line.
 

TJay

Senior Member
I don't get it. I thought all oil that originated here went on the international market. Why would any oil company sell their crude for $16 a barrel when they can get over $100 on the international market?
 

The Horned Toad

Senior Member
How many of yall knew we have been exporting gasoline?

The only reason why we are paying to much at the pump is due to government regulations on everything.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The United States is awash in gasoline. So much so, in fact, that the country is exporting a record amount of it.

The country exported 430,000 more barrels of gasoline a day than it imported in September, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is about twice the amount at the start of the year, and experts and industry insiders say the trend is here to stay.
 

southernboy2147

Senior Member
we need to:shoot: all the people down that are keepin us from using our own oil here in the US.. if we were to use our own it would create jobs and drive the price of gas down which would bring EVERYTHING back down... the economy would be booming again... well thats what i think im young what do i know.
 

Lukikus2

Senior Member
Just watched a documentary on that ND town last week. Help wanted signs everywhere. The town has been so inundated with workers in the last few months the town can't keep up with the changes. There are more jobs than people, more people than housing and more crimes and prostitution popping up than the police can handle. Like you said "It's like a gold rush". They also are using the fracking method to obtain the oil and said there is a limitless supply.

And gas is almost $4 a gallon and rising. :banginghe
 

southernboy2147

Senior Member
Just watched a documentary on that ND town last week. Help wanted signs everywhere. The town has been so inundated with workers in the last few months the town can't keep up with the changes. There are more jobs than people, more people than housing and more crimes and prostitution popping up than the police can handle. Like you said "It's like a gold rush". They also are using the fracking method to obtain the oil and said there is a limitless supply.

And gas is almost $4 a gallon and rising. :banginghe

the price of gas here is as high as ive ever seen in, and gas around here is usually lower than anywhere else... 3.62 a gal.
 

Reel Big-uns

Senior Member
Western Countries will continue to import oil from all those Desert Countries, as long as it lasts, that has oil exports making up more than 35-40% + of their countries financial resources in order to keep what little peace there still is and to keep from disrupting the world distribution of commerce in order to sustain stability around the world.
We can like it or not but I’m a afraid the chaos resulting in the United States becoming oil independent would result in a major economic global collapse.

I also believe that we will at some point in the distant future the USA will become energy independent but it’s going to take a long slow weaning process to avoid a global catastrophe
.
Not only this, my understanding we don’t have enough refineries, in our country, to process nowhere near the capacity of oil needed to supply the USA.
 
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