Is this the Solution to our Energy Problems?

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Do you sometimes get messages from a well meaning friend or someone who is looking for answers to urgent problems? I do.

Recently I received a message on Facebook form a friend there. She forwarded information a family member had received about the way to solve our energy and fuel problems once and for all without having to go to any Arab country or anywhere away form the US.

I thought she would tell me about a new technology that was found or a new invention that would soon allow us to become independent. Instead the news was about large oil fields discovered in the Dakotas, called “The Bakken”

Here is my response and below you find the original message I received

Thanks Friend (to protect the innocent)
I think it is true. What I heard about it is that it is very complex to recover this oil. Under good circumstances, the oil industry recovers about 3% of a field. That is under good conditions. When it is complicated, like is probably the case with these finds, they probably don’t get much more than 1%. Even that would still be substantial.

South Dakota

What is really the flaw in all of this is the approach itself. If a formula would have been found in 1910 that would have allowed to raise, grow and sustain horses that would have been stringer, eat less than normal horses, and don’t create a much poop as typical horses, while costing no more than what we were used to, do you think we should have all gone back to horse buggies?

The main point is that this oil is basically a huge carbon storage field. If it is brought to the surface and burned, the carbon will be released and our climate will get worse even faster than it already is.

Oil Pipeline

There are still a few people who don’t want to believe that we are living in a time of rapid climate change. They point to snow in New York and Washington this year as a sign that the scientists are all fools. When we review the larger studies being done on a regular basis, we can clearly find that the plant is changing. Yes, we can wait to see if it is really the carbon. I think we should rather go with Tee Boone Pickens and find alternatives. The oil we preserve should be used for the things nobody is talking about, like all the plastics we use, the creams and cosmetics we apply, and many many more things made on oil based components.

Yes we should all write to our congressmen and women, but to tell them that now is the time to take us into a new future, where we are not dependable on foreign oil because we use the wind, and the sun, and the warmth in our soils to generate more than we need.

Here is a plan that would actually work and get us into a new era of energy independence while leaving the carbon storage places, like Bakken, where they are.

I think that’s a better plan. Good thing we both try to find ways to get the country independent from foreign oil and foreign radical influence.

Axel

“The Green Leadership Coach”

AEM.EDBD

Here is the original message from my friend. Tell me what you think about it

If there is any truth to this, then we should all be writing our Congressmen. I tried to check it out on truthorfiction.com, but all I could get were references to Bakken Oil sites. Given the state of our government at this moment, it is probably true. Interesting reading, regardless. I’ve written to all of our Oklahoma congressmen, but they are essentially useless, so doubt that they will even bother to read it.

The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April (’08) that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn’t been updated since ‘95) 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… 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.’ reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It’s a formation known as the Williston Basin, but is more commonly referred to as the ‘Bakken.’ And 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 41 years straight.
2. And if THAT didn’t throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it’s from TWO YEARS AGO!

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/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you’re thinking about it …. and hopefully P.O’d, do this:

3. Pass this along. If you don’t take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you want to complain about gas prices … because by doing NOTHING, you’ve forfeited your right to complain.