[clue-talk] oil...

[Nate Duehr]

I thought this was interesting.  Someone forwarded it to me this morning.

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

While I know it's politically incorrect to even talk about burning 
petroleum these days (while "clean" coal burning doesn't seem to bother 
anyone), I thought it was cool that USGS says they found this in the 
Dakotas and Montana:

"The Bakken Formation estimate is larger than all other current USGS oil 
assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest "continuous" oil 
accumulation ever assessed by the USGS. A "continuous" oil accumulation 
means that the oil resource is dispersed throughout a geologic formation 
rather than existing as discrete, localized occurrences. The next 
largest "continuous" oil accumulation in the U.S. is in the Austin Chalk 
of Texas and Louisiana, with an undiscovered estimate of 1.0 billions of 
barrels of technically recoverable oil."

Drilling may not fix anything long-term, but we're not exactly 
resource-poor here.

Nate