You won't hear this from the Ministry of Propaganda

[tombogan03884]

    Senator Jeff Kruse
    > R-Roseburg, District 1
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    > Phone: 503-986-1701  Image removed by sender.  900 Court St. NE, S-211 Salem Oregon 97301
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    E-Newsletter                  Number 1, Volume 1

    

Working Hard For You

AMERICAN OIL

We continue to be driven by an agenda focused in part by alternative energy.  We are told the purpose is two fold, to be more environmentally friendly and to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.  I have written in past newsletters about the environmental side of this debate.  For example how ethanol actually takes more energy to create than we save by using it and about how it makes no sense to take land out of food production for this purpose.  We even had acknowledgement on the Senate floor about how corn based ethanol will never work.  Unfortunately that statement was followed up with the claim that cellulosic ethanol, which has even less sugar than corn, might be the answer.  We seem to be chasing the next, greatest, unproven solution.  The fact is oil is more environmentally friendly than this alternative and will be for the foreseeable future.

This brings us to the issue of our dependence on foreign oil.  I received an e-mail on the subject, complete with links to the USGS for verification.  These are not my words, but I do agree with the points being made.  I thought I would share this e-mail with you verbatim to hopefully give you a look into potential solutions to this problem that differ greatly from current US energy policy.

Sincerely,

Senator Jeff Kruse

   WILL AN AMERICAN PUSH FOR IT!!!
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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:
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> 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.
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> '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.
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> '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!
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> That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight..
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> 2. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO!
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> U. S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
> Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006
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> 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?
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> 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:
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> - 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 ...
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of you sent this to every one in your address book.
> By the way...this is all true.. Check it out at the link below!!!
> GOOGLE it or follow this link.  It will blow your mind..


    > http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

[Kid Shelleen]

Holy Smokes!!!!

Just copied and e-mailed to everyone that I know, including both of my US Senators and my US Congressman. I hope that everyone else will do the same. I am also about to forward to Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.

Thanks Tom

[runstowin]

Good info To., I find it interesting that all of this was true before the present administration was in place. Where have the good old Republicans been?

[Dharmaeye]

Perhaps this is correct - but it will take oil at  least $200 a barrel probably to make it worthwhile to extract.
Probably more government crap - we are constantly being lied too and paying for it.

[Hazcat]

I have read reports on oil shale and oil sands that at $60.00 a barrel it would be profitable.

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

Perhaps this is correct - but it will take oil at  least $200 a barrel probably to make it worthwhile to extract.
Probably more government crap - we are constantly being lied too and paying for it.

You obviously did not read the article closely.
The government "CRAP" you refer to is bowing to those worthless "environmentalists" who are nothing more than a bunch of hypocrite anti American socialist liars.

    DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW
    F*CK OPEC

[Kid Shelleen]

I have read reports on oil shale and oil sands that at $60.00 a barrel it would be profitable.

I have heard the same reports Haz. A recent report said that, in the current environment, costs for extraction have increased and that it now takes approximately $60.00/barrel for oil sands and $80.00/barrell for oil shale. Both should be completely workable and the oil shale extraction would create a lot of US jobs. There should be nothing stopping us. The only holdups are politics and special interest groups. Canada is extracting from oil sands as fast as they can. They are generating a lot of oil and a lot of revenue.

[tombogan03884]

I have heard the same reports Haz. A recent report said that, in the current environment, costs for extraction have increased and that it now takes approximately $60.00/barrel for oil sands and $80.00/barrell for oil shale. Both should be completely workable and the oil shale extraction would create a lot of US jobs. There should be nothing stopping us. The only holdups are politics and special interest groups. Canada is extracting from oil sands as fast as they can. They are generating a lot of oil and a lot of revenue.

40% of our imported oil comes from Canada, most, if not all, from the Athabasca oil sands.
Canada is our 3! source of imported oil

[twyacht]

Hannity was reporting this last Fall, regarding the WEALTH of shale oil, and offshore reserves already located. They just are not allowed to get it.

The cost to retrieve it would be a drop in the bucket for the overall yield!!!!

We could tell OPEC, S. America, to piss off,,,, but NOOOOOOOO

Google the last refinery built in this country.

Politicians sure will screw up a good thing. BOTH parties......

[runstowin]

The reason things go the way they is because the powers that be, are determined to raise the American standard of living to that of a Chinese peasant.