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About that big oil field...
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I blogged recently about this huge oil field under the Dakotas. While the initial estimates were high, this report still contains great news.
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I agree . . . this should be a top priority for our country to ease our economic woes and to also decrease our dependency on foreign oil.
US companies currently have no incentive to go get a large oil deposit. Since the current market is over 110$ a barrel, they are doing quite nicely the way things are. They also don't have the refining capacity to handle any extra crude.
BUT, if the US government were to go the big companies and say"hey guys if you don't go drill we might have subsidize this group of smaller companies that would love to get in there "they may have to drill to kill any smaller competition. Either way the price per barrel would go down. Just a thought.
I really wish there would be a push towards the use of alternative fuels instead of oil. Even if this oil field works to our advantage, which would be great for the economy, sooner or later we are going to need an alternative fuel source.
I just saw in Winchester's paper where an error in programing the gas pumps at one station resulted in fuel going for 33 cents a gallon. Needless ot say, the lines were long until they could fix the "mistake."
I am surprised that they didnt close the pumps down . . . that is definitely money being lost by that station. I would feel weird taking advantage of that . . . . it is almost like stealing.
I feel like it was not stealing really...They should have closed the pumps until it was fixed. Since they were letting people buy it at that price knowing it was 33 cents a gallon it was their fault..
I recently brought a hydrogen engine out of rosedale, Ca. to Oshawa Canada for G M and was told by the officals there that production was eight to ten years away, I was also told at this time they seen no unsurpassable problems. The manufactures are working on alternatetive fuel sorces. This man made problem with gas prices is hurting their new car sales.
I recently brought a hydrogen engine out of Rosedale, Ca. to Oshawa, Canada for G M . Was told by the officals there production was eight to ten years away. I was also told at this time they seen no unsurpassable problems with the engine. The manufactures are working on alternatetive fuel sorces. This man made problem with gas prices is hurting their new car sales.So it's one giant after the other.Let them worry one of will win.
Having lived in Texas and Colorado among oil well, coal mines and natural gas I can tell you that some big oil company already owns the mineral rights on these lands and would probably be drilling if not for the environmentalists. I had oil thumpers( sounding devises that detect oil) placed on my ranch in Tx. The oil co will pay to go across your property for any damages that they might make to your fields testing but you own no rights to anything that they find under the surface. The people that I did know that had wells on their place had no real complaints so the green guys need to wise up. We will see what happens in the Dakotas .