Your Stand on Domestic drilling??

[clt_capt]

I'm sure most of you have heard, but there was a recent survey released by the USGS estimating HUGE amounts of oil located primarily in North Dakota.

Oil is making millionaires in North Dakota

By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 30, 5:00 AM ET

BEULAH, N.D. - Oscar Stohler was raised in a sod house in western North Dakota and ranched there for nearly seven decades. He never gave much thought to what lay below the grass that fattened his cattle.



When oilmen wanted to drill there last year, Stohler, 83, doubted oil would be found two miles underground on his property. He even joked about it.
"I told them if they hit oil, I was going to buy a Cadillac convertible and put those big horns on the front and wear a 10-gallon hat," Stohler recalled.
He still drives his old pickup and wears a mesh farm cap — but it's by choice.
In less than a year, Stohler and his wife, Lorene, 82, have become millionaires from the production of one well on their land near Dunn Center, a mile or so from the sod home where Oscar grew up. A second well has begun producing on their property and another is being drilled — all aimed at the Bakken shale formation, a rich deposit that the U.S. Geological Survey calls the largest continuous oil accumulation it has ever assessed.
Landowners in western North Dakota have a much better chance of striking it rich from oil than they do playing the lottery, say the Stohlers. Some of their neighbors in the town of about 120, from bar tenders to Tupperware salespeople, have become "overnight millionaires" from oil royalty payments.

[TunaTeaser1]

The indian reservation (Fort Berthold) out there is making some serious bank on this discovery too

[bigeasy]

So far this thread seems to overwhelmingly want to drill for oil in this country.

Where is our congress? Who do they represent? What is really going on?

[Dave Sikorski]

So far this thread seems to overwhelmingly want to drill for oil in this country.

Where is our congress? Who do they represent? What is really going on?

Great point, I wonder how many folks in this thread have written or called their reps recently or ever. Now I'm as cynical as they come when it comes to dealing with the govt. But I do believe that a call now and again can stick with a rep. Remind them who keeps them in their cushy job and you can get somewhere with them.

-D

[Blue Water Runner]

Great point, I wonder how many folks in this thread have written or called their reps recently or ever. Now I'm as cynical as they come when it comes to dealing with the govt. But I do believe that a call now and again can stick with a rep. Remind them who keeps them in their cushy job and you can get somewhere with them.

-D

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