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Ironically enough, ND has a coal conversion plant still in mothballs.

Anybody think taxing imported oil so that it doesn't put our domestic production out of business is a good idea? Wouldn't stable energy prices be a good thing? Plus the Saudis use the oil money we send them to fund groups like ISIS which end up costing us in other ways.

I saw a story on Fox that said that the some of the OPEC nations needed to keep oil at $80 a barrel to make their budgets.

Interesting to say the least.

We should buy all we can while it's cheap and save our reserves, instead of increasing our refining capacity when alternative power needs developing.

I would gladly pay $3.00 a gallon for gas if we brewed our own crude. At $75 a barrel I think everyone should be happy, except OPEC , and Russia. We will be way ahead in the long run to pay this price and then some. Every oil state would benefit and we could have more natural gas. I read once that Alaska pumps the natural gas back into the ground cause there is no way to send it south. Half of what the U.S uses is what Alaska puts back in the ground. We could tell everyone else to stick it.

I've said this for the last 35 years. Use up the rest of the world's oil first, and save ours for the final crunch.

unfortunately the oil boom in the various fields around the US is one of the few good points of our economy right now.....bout the only serious job growth

Gee's this is just a business cycle, they happen all the time!

Only in Calvin's world is $10 gas a good thing for the 'economy'.

Just get sum Exxon stock and reinvest the dividends biches!!

The Saudi's aren't worried a bit about US oil production but they are obsessed with the Iranians and their bomb ambition. This is aimed square at the Iranians and the gulf arab states are going to do all they can to strangle the life out of the Iranians economy. Many people in the west think of Iranians as Arabs which they are not. Iranians are persians and are hated by arabs and the persians think of arabs as subhuman ni**ers. Then on top of that there is the sunni vs shia division. Isis is the monster that the arab states created to [bleep] the shia arabs and Iranians in Iraq. Like most monsters they didn't stay on the leash long and now are a menace to everyone.

What kind of work do you do? Can an 18-year old get into it?

I have read the $60 figure for the Bakken is misleading in that that price includes developing a well from obtaining the property/mineral rights up through production. Since the property/mineral rights where acquired long ago it's actually much cheaper.

uh no, hell alot of the leases are new.....they dont acquire the rights generally they lease them.....and in this boom they wound up sinking holes in ground they hadnt in the previous two

It's Pavlov's salivating dogs, Psychology 101 the conditioned response. We Americans are the driving force of oil. We are the top consumers. When we change our habits the whole world changes as well to respond to the USA's energy needs. Sometimes it's good for us but most of the time it's great for them.

Right now we are oil independent and the rest of the world is adjusting to America's new energy independence. Right now we are driving the bus and we are giving the rest of the world's oil producing countries fits. When we are using more energy than we produce the rest of the world treats us like diseased lepers and makes us pay their prices for the "medicine" that makes us well. America is forced to beg for every oil scrap they offer us. Kicking us in our balls every chance they get and loving it.

But, the longer we drive the oil and energy producing bus the more we get to control our own destiny. Liberals hate that. They want us kowtowing to what ever country fits their current liberal agenda. When the Bakkens oil dries up we will be on our knees again if we do not develop another source of energy. I suggest Nuclear energy in addition to coal, solar and wind along with new oil fields in Alaska and off the California coast as a good start.

The bottom line is some people in our own country want to see us begging for their own selfish political reasons. The leadership of oil producing countries want to see us begging so we can make small groups of dictators and ultra elite families rich. The projection of power and independence offends some on the liberal left. It appears they will sacrifice us in a New York minute if it fits their political agenda.

We need to think about controlling them; the ones that want to enslave us, with nothing more than common sense energy development. Doing what it takes to be energy independent keeps them in check. I have no sympathy for those who want to control us, either foreign or domestic. In my opinion, we should all think that way.

OPEC for a start needs to be following our lead and not the other way around. It's time we drug them around by their noses for a while. Right now we are forcing them to fight among themselves trying to develop an energy strategy that puts us back on their oil tit. I don't know about you, but that makes me smile. Maybe just a little.

kwg

we wont ever control them....China and India are going to take over the top buyer spots from us before long....especially with how much of our manufacturing has been tossed in their laps by our EPA....yeah we have alot of vehicles, but China and India's market shares in this respect are going up exponentially....

yes you can. I run a chemical mixing plant doing mostly coil tubing support, drill outs ,toe preps and fishing jobs.Production work.

windchill is -30 and its not even the cold part of winter yet....need help?

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Linky no workee, Roger.

Ed

cut and paste, i got where i needed to go.....will see what i can come up with, no chit they are hiring and all over the place....