Got this in an E-mail......I hope its true!

Here's an interesting read

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Also if I may add, about 6 months ago I was watching a news program on

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oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. This is out of context,

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but this is the actual question as asked. The host said to Forbes, "I am

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going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer, how

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much oil does the U.S. have in the ground." Forbes did not miss a beat,

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he said, "more than all the Middle East put together." Please read below.

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The U. S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) that only

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scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a

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revised report (hadn't been updated since '95) on how much oil was in

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this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota ; western South Dakota ;

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and extreme eastern Montana .... check THIS out:

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The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska 's Prudhoe

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Bay , and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on

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foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at

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503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at

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$107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3

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trillion.

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'When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see

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their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea..' says Terry Johnson, the

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Montana Legislature's financial analyst.

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'This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found

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in the past 56 years' reports, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a

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formation known as the Williston Basin , but is more commonly referred to

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as the 'Bakken.' And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North

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Dakota and into Canada . For years, U. S. oil exploration has been

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considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching

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for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological

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breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's massive reserves.... and we now

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have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light,

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sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER

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BARREL!

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That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years

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straight.

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2. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should -

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because it's from TWO YEARS AGO!

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U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!

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Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006

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Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the

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largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION

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barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In

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three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With

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this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?

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They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders,

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than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official

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estimates:

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- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia

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- 18-times as much oil as Iraq

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- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait

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- 22-times as much oil as Iran

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- 500-times as much oil as Yemen

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- and it's all right here in the Western United States .

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HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the

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environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America

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become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of

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people dictate our lives and our economy.....WHY?

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James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in

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this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION

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barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude

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oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.

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Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price - even with this find? Think

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again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, - it has to. Think

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OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?

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Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you're thinking

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about it .... and hopefully P.O'd, do this:

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http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/bakken.asp

 

Thanks, Ben .