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Report says up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil in Bakken shale

BISMARCK, North Dakota (AP) - The U.S. government estimated Thursday that up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil can be recovered from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana, using current technology.

The U.S. Geological Survey called it the largest continuous oil accumulation it has ever assessed.

The Bakken Formation encompasses some 25,000 square miles (64,750 sq. kilometers) in North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, in three layers. About two-thirds of the acreage is in western North Dakota, where the oil is trapped in a thin layer of dense rock nearly two miles (3 kilometers) beneath the surface. Companies use pressurized fluid and sand to break pores in the rock and prop them open to recover the oil. More from The Star

The great thing about this article is that there are a couple of oil companies drilling up there.  I can only hope whatever they do get remains in the US and helps ease the dependency on foreign oil.

RTaylor

April 10, 2008 Posted by rtaylor83305 | economy, trucking | , | 1 Comment

Prosecutor: Suspected Serial Killer’s Truck ‘Awash with Blood’ of 10 Dead Women

INDIANAPOLIS —  A cab of a truck driver and suspected serial killer was “awash with blood” belonging to 10 different people, said a prosecutor who charged the man Thursday with murdering a missing woman.

Carmen Purpura’s body has not been found, but the prosecutor said her blood soaked the seats in Bruce Mendenhall’s cab, and that so much of her blood was there she could not possibly be alive.

Purpura’s slaying is the fourth Mendenhall has been charged with since his arrest in Nashville July 12, the day Purpura disappeared from an Indianapolis truck stop. Police say he confessed to being present at as many as six slayings in Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia.  More from FoxNews

 

April 10, 2008 Posted by rtaylor83305 | BOLO and Crime, trucking | , , , , , , | No Comments

McCain Says Oil Prices Too High to Buy for SPR

Sen. John McCain is calling for the U.S. to stop adding oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, making him the highest profile Republican to break with the Bush administration on its policy of expanding the emergency stockpile. In an economic speech this afternoon, the Republican presidential candidate said that oil prices are too high to continue filling the reserve.

“With oil at over $100 a barrel and an adequate supply in the SPR, it is time to suspend purchases,” he said in remarks prepared for delivery. “This will lessen worldwide demand for oil, and if the classic laws of supply and demand hold, we should see a welcome decrease in the price of oil.”

In addition, Sen. McCain is calling on Americans to cut back on energy use, though he was not specific as to how. “I ask every American to consider how you can sacrifice a bit for the common good and cut back where you can on your energy use,” he said.  More from the Wall Street Journal

Fox News has been showing video of nearly 100 trucks circiling Washington today, airhorns blowing in protest of the high fuel prices.  While McCain’s words are nice, we still have not heard a feasible, workable, short term solution to $4+ per gallon diesel fuel. 

RTaylor

April 10, 2008 Posted by rtaylor83305 | Politics, economy, trucking | , , , , , | No Comments

Maupin Family Stays Strong as Funeral Set

Terry Kinney, The Army Times

 

 The parents of a soldier listed as missing-captured in Iraq for nearly four years will continue their work at an organization that has sent thousands of goody packages to soldiers, even though the reality is beginning to sink in that the Army has declared him dead.

 

Keith and Carolyn Maupin and numerous volunteers have sent more than 9,600 boxes of donated toiletries, magazines and treats to soldiers in Iraq through the Yellow Ribbon Support Center, along with photos of Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin and a plea to help find him.

 

It’s been just more than a week since the Army said the reservist’s remains were found northwest of Baghdad, about 12 miles from where he was captured. The Maupins say they haven’t been told details of the discovery or how and when their son was killed.  More from Family Security Matters

 

RIP, Matt.  You are truly an American hero.

RTaylor

April 10, 2008 Posted by rtaylor83305 | Iraq | , , , | 2 Comments

Tancredo demands pardon for former Border Patrol agents

Congressman Tom Tancredo is demanding that President Bush grant a full pardon to two former Border Patrol agents who he believes were falsely convicted in connection with the 2005 shooting of a fleeing drug suspect who was in the U.S. illegally.

 

President Bush recently pardoned 15 criminals and commuted the sentence of another — a convicted crack-cocaine dealer. But Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) notes that former U.S. Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos remain incarcerated after being convicted of wounding a fleeing drug smuggler, who had brought 743 pounds of marijuana across the U.S. border.  More from OneNewsNow

We are behind Congressman Tancredo and must continue to put pressure on President Bush to grant a full pardon to - and immediate release for - border patrol agents Ramos and Compean.  These men should not have spent one minute in jail.  It is a shameful thing for this country that we coddle a criminal illegally entering this country in order to sell drugs that could get in the hands of our children while punishing such fine men for doing their job!

RTaylor

April 10, 2008 Posted by rtaylor83305 | Uncategorized | , , , , | 2 Comments

Senators spar on gas prices

WASHINGTON - With oil prices setting a record high of $112.21 a barrel, high fuel costs are a serious threat to the South Dakota economy, lawmakers said Wednesday.

The Energy Information Administration released a report Tuesday that predicts national average monthly gasoline prices will peak at $3.60 a gallon this summer, with prices in some areas surpassing $4.

Diesel fuel already is selling for about $4 a gallon.  More from the ArgusLeader.com

The one solution this article did not mention was a reduction in fuel taxes.  Senator John Thune made sense when he said, “Congress is to blame, too, because it has failed to take action to increase domestic supplies and to expand refinery capacity.

“Yes, these global economic issues and the weak dollar, they’re all factors, but fundamentally, this is a supply problem,”

Continue to put pressure on Washington to reduce/suspend fuel taxes, increase domestic drilling (for OUR use, not China’s) and build more refineries. 

RTaylor

April 10, 2008 Posted by rtaylor83305 | economy, trucking | , , , | No Comments