On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:48:51 -0400, D.Duck wrote:


Now if we could only get some drilling going in the Gulf or on the
mainland. What's with this Ballken field in Montana/ND I've been reading
about?

Do you mean the Bakken Formation that was discovered in 1951? Lots of
oil there, but with current technology most of it will stay there.

We are not going to drill our way out of this. In this country, oil
production peaked in the early '70s. We are still the third largest oil
producing country, yet we have to import more than 1/2 our oil. Seems to
me, there is a hell of a lot more we can do on the conservation side,
than on the producing side.