If this is true, then we have all the oil we need and it’s like “so long and thanks for all the fish” to the Middle East. “Hope you guys figure out that Sunni/Shiite thing… and try to get along with the Jews.” We’ll finally be able to tell all the Saudi royalty that they smell like gym socks and are creepy weirdos. Plus, we can be even bigger dicks to other countries now… and they’ll have to suck up to us because we have oil.
In other words, the world will be as it should be.
Not only could we kiss the Middle East good bye but if we make more efficient use of our reserves we could tell everyone else that we don’t care to play with them anymore. They could then finish what they have been doing for millennia and kill each other off.
Once they’re done, we can go over and claim the land for the US. Those left alive could assimilate or keep on moving (don’t let the screen door hit you on your way out)
All that is well and good (and I’ll believe it when I see it) but there is still a little problem called refining. We seem to be a bit short on refining capability. But in general I would love to tell the Mid East to take a flying… to the moon .. and then of course nuke the moon
Course it has been more than 30 days since the article.
But I am just bitter, cause the oil field does not include the land that my family owns in South Dakota. Grandpa settled in the wrong part of the region……Le sigh.
Hope it is true, I would love to see us tell OPEC to take a long walk off a short pier even if I won’t get to live the life of an oil heir.
I thought we were supposed to be running out of oil! But I read that we now have more known reserves than ever, something like 1.5 trillion barrels. It seems odd that the more we use, the more we have and also, that it should be so expensive.
What I’d like is a nuclear-powered car – and tank.
Not only can we tell the Arabs to go pond sand up their asses…but this will cause Al Gore’s head to explode! I mean…we can all drive really big fast cars and SUV’s and we can tell the greenies to suck it! Personally, I’m now committed to adding Suzuki’s new B-King to my stable! I already have the Gold Wing as my geezer ride, now I’m going to have something in the event that any of the biatches want to play! And I won’t worry about the gas anymore, either! (Yea, like I ever did!)
It really pisses me off to contemplate our energy policies which are dictated by nutbags whose real agenda is to reduce the earths population by 99%. The fact is that between ANWR, Utah (1000 yrs of sand or shale oil), Colorado, the Gulf and now the Dakotas (which by some simple math at 200 billion barrels of an estimated 170 – 500 billion is 40 years at the rate we currently import) makes us the owners of the biggest oil reserves in the world. I hosted a party at my house for a friend where one of the guests, a lawyer, who was a card carrying member of the American Communist Party. Anyway, he was spouting all kinds of feel good alternate energy propoganda, but even he acknowledged that the office of the President has the authority to drill ANWR.
I am a fan of “W” in a big way because of, well, it doesn’t really matter why, I just am. However I can not for the life of me figure out why we have not built 1,000 nuclear power plants and 20 new oil refineries in the past 7+ years.
Glen
Lets get this oil flowing!–the sooner it looks like it will hit the market–the sooner the saudi’s will lower their prices!
Hmmm… according to that map, the reserve moves up into Canada….
Do our poor oppressed neighbors north of the border need “liberating”…
I also heard they might have weapons of mass destruction…
“What a wonderful world…oh yeah…”
#8, I hear there a re a lot of liberals there, too. And a lot keep promising to move there, but never do (Typical liberals, mouths flapping, no action). Perhaps we could get an exchange going, our liberal for their conservatives. Once that’s complete, we can test our nukes in Canada before we nuke the moon.
Slaphappy1975 #8 — no, Canada doesn’t need liberating. We just need to threaten to adopt socialized medicine like theirs — then they will have no place to go when they’re sick, and will do whatever we say.
Poker’s great when you have all the aces.
Hey, Canada is our #1 supplier of oil. If anything, they’ll try to squash the Bakken Field deveopment (sounds like bacon – mmmm) by endorsing Obama and all the environmentalists who are piling on his campaign. I suppose if McCain favors developing the Bakken Field, that’ll be reason to vote for him right there. Unless, of course, Obama betrays the environmentalists and supports it also at which point it’ll become socialized oil. If that happens, Obama and the Democrat Congress will make sure it costs $200/barrel in the US and $50 to the Third World.
On a completely random note: (I don’t know where else to vent)
Uh, about me being a big fan of “W”. I just got through reading how his administration is pushing all kinds of massive new legislation in light of the “financial crisis” we find ourselves in. While the recession we find ourselves in is not necesarily entirely caused by the high price of oil it is certainly not being helped any by the fact that gasoline has tripled in price during the Bush administration. The economy is now in the throes of a “mortgage crisis” which is the product of speculation and preidctable inevitable defaults. I am in the mortgage business and witnessed first-hand what was going on. Don’t let anyone fool you. Virtually all the “risky” loans were also high interest. That is how banks protect themselves from loss. Why do they need to be bailed out and then regulated more. Let them take their lumps like the rest of us and move on.
Oh and about “W”; maybe he did not manage our energy policies but at least he stomped on those cockroaches in Al Queda, is still pro-life and not a Democrat. 3 out of 4 aint bad?
I would not be surprised to all of a sudden hear that there is some sort of obscure salamander or toad or rat in North and South Dakota that drilling for oil will endanger and therefore we will NEVER EVER be able to touch this reserve!
If we do decide to drill and part of the oil runs into Canada, I hope we slant drill underground hundreds of miles into Canada and we suck their part dry and then we install sensors to catch those gay Canadians if they try to steal our oil through nefarious slant drilling onto our property! Appropriate nuclear strikes will be called on major population areas each time they are detected! Trust but verify is our motto and once verified…well…we consider nations stealing our oil or those sponsoring or harboring those who steal our oil to be rogue nations that shall be dealt with swiftly as a deterrent…”for our children”!!!
Could it be, ussjc, that you’re now advocating “slant drilling” as a result of slamming your pecker in a door jamb?
Yes Canada has WMD’s I heard the Yaks sold them to Canada. All we need is a group of 4 or 5 to take over canada then the oil will be all ours!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of suppliers of oil. Mexico is our second largest supplier. I am bilingual and do all kinds of business with the hispanic community. I thought the USA had a monopoly on nut job wacko conspiracy theorists. I was talking to a Mexican the other day who told me that the Mexican Gov was so corrupt that they sell all their oil to the US for $20/bbl because if they didn’t we would jack up the rate of interest we charge them on all our loans that they don’t pay and never will. If only!
I have never met a Mexican who didn’t understand money. About 25% of my hispanic clients are functionally illiterate but I have never met one who couldn’t figure our how much he had coming to him.
When we monkey stomped Santa Ana in 1845 (?) (some time after the Alamo anyway) we should have gone all the way to Mexico City. Then at least we could have ALL the Gulf oil, Mexico wouldn’t be a third world country whose biggest export is not oil but cheap workers, there would be 20 million fewer illegals, and we could tax them all not just the ones that are here who won’t collect social security!
How hard would it be to do now?. The border with Guatemala is a lot smaller than the border with Mexico
#14 – Posted by: ussjimmycarter on March 31, 2008 12:25 PM
He’s right. I don’t think we’ll ever get to it. Besides, we can use ethanol instead! (Sarc)
It strikes me as highly amusing (and yes Im easily amused) that this thread has digressed from a discussion on energy, to advocating the overthrow and destruction of our neighbors to the north and south. This isnt meant to imply that Im against the destruction of, and overthrow of our neighbors (or anyone esle for that matter) just as an observation that collectively we are a “war-mongering” group. Of which I am proud to participate. NUKE THE MOON!
Believe me, ussjc, they ain’t NOTHING there. Course the house that the hubby and I have been trying to sell unsuccessfully is. HMMM?
For the last year or two, drilling rigs have been going up in that area like gangbusters at 3-5 million dollars a pop. Everytime we would take the 45 minute drive to the store (at 80mph in our big truck) there would be a new one on the way.
I’m John McCain and I’d like to apologize for this post! This is a racially and culturally insensitive topic which I completely disassociate myself from! My good friends on the other side of the isle (whom I have worked with on many issues on behalf of the American people) and my many friends in the Arab community would surely be offended by the comments by conservative pricks on this site! If elected President of the United States I promise to continue the policies of the Bush administration. I shall spend my time in office on bended knee or (bent over a barrel of crude) by our Arab friends to make sure our supplies last…and we shall NEVER drill in America and spoil our vast unspoiled vastness…
Well (!). I’m against drilling in the Bakken Field because, as we all know, when we do that, the ground sinks and those big oil guys just hate replacing the oil with water (too expensive) and the next thing you know, the Great Lakes will expand to include all of Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakota’s causing Minnesota to be known as the “Land of One Lake” plus an irreversable ‘climate change’ not to mention ussjimmycarter’s great socialist people’s republic will be but an archeological relic for descendents of homo sapiens to find 10,000,000 years from now.
Therefore, I’m voting for Obama.
Two things:1. Canada is already drilling the oil- it’s called horizontal drilling, where they dill under the US border and pump out our oil to sell back to us.
2. Hey#17- we did march into Mexico City- they looked around, and said to mexico “you can have it back!”
Fellas, this is disappointing: Y’all don’t reflect any more understanding of oil business (“awl bidness”) than you do about the Mexican War, or the Canadian nuclear posture. If you guys were to nuke the moon, I doubt the warhead would go off. I think you better get to googlin’ and finish your education, and whatever you do, don’t try to mug any 81-year-old Marines.
Dammit, I come here to see smart people make fools of themselves.
If those Canadians are really slant drilling our oil, I think we should send a Brigaid of female Marine’s accross the border to totally kick their military’s ass. We will just take their oil and then give them back the rest of their lousy country…including their rotten health care system! You can buy pain killers in drug stores there, however like codine…we could ship that all home for good times…
Ever since seanmahair’s first comment, this column HAS come a long way, comatus, thanks in part to your insight and ussjc’s slant on things while TerribleTroy’s amusement of Socrates’ aces has ultimately lead to John McCain’s apology for ussjimmycarter calling a Brigade of female Marines a “Brigaid” as if they were a bunch of “maids.“
Holy Shiite! That is a lot of oil.
I think I will move to eastern Montana rather than North Dakota.