I cannot conceive of anyone thinking we can flip a switch and go to green energy. The battery cars are a flop! Do you think a tractor trailer which moves the goods north, south, east and west can run on a battery and pull 80,000 pounds at 70 mph? The battery itself would be bigger than the trailer it would be pulling.
It will be over 100 years before fossil fuels can even begin to be phased out, if then. Let’s take what we have learned from space travel and apply it to transportation in this country, a novel idea!
Fourteen lawmakers called on President Barack Obama to delay a decision on the Canada-to-Texas Keystone oil sands pipeline, while Obama was interrupted in Denver on Wednesday by a protester opposing TransCanada Corp's project.
Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent who is one of the Senate's most liberal members, and Democratic Representative Steve Cohen were joined by 12 other congressional Democrats in asking for a delay until the State Department investigates alleged conflicts of interest over the project.
An analyst at the KBC consultancy in Houston, said the delay could scuttle the proposal. "To delay the decision on Keystone XL is in effect a decision itself," he said. "I think in all likelihood that a delay would kill the project."
A TransCanada spokesman said on Wednesday a delay would not make sense and would leave the United States dependent on tanker traffic and oil imports from the Middle East.
Some of Obama's liberal supporters have strongly opposed the project and delaying a decision could allow him to avoid antagonizing environmentalists disillusioned with his progress on climate change.
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," reports The 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 years 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 mother-load 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 American 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?
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
Cruz Construction:
http://www.cruzconstruct.com/services..php
I’m reminded of the joke that Jerry Clower told about his friend Clovis catching all kind of fish and the game warden wanted to see how he was catching fish when no one else can catch any. They row to the middle of the lake and Clovis lights a dynamite stick throws it in the lake and after the explosion, he nets the fish and puts them in the boat. The game warden says “you idiot don’t you know it’s against the law to fish like that., Clovis lights the next stick of dynamite and ask the game warden are you going to argue or fish?
I believe we are at that point! Are you going to drill, build a pipeline, put people back to work, change the future, change the outlook of the country or fish(argue)?
Michael Mack
An American
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