How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia

From the story:

When it was Mr. Hamm's turn to talk briefly with President Obama, "I told him of the revolution in the oil and gas industry and how we have the capacity to produce enough oil to enable America to replace OPEC. I wanted to make sure he knew about this."

The president's reaction? "He turned to me and said, 'Oil and gas will be important for the next few years. But we need to go on to green and alternative energy. [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu has assured me that within five years, we can have a battery developed that will make a car with the equivalent of 130 miles per gallon.'"

Good luck getting a tractor and a combine to run on this green energy source.  The Libtards are too stupid to realize that it take fossil fuels to put food on the table.

Not to mention that every oil well that is drilled employs in the neighborhood of 100 workers.

As far as making oil, the earth does it on its' own.  There probably isn't a place on the earth that you couldn't hit oil if you drilled deep enough.  MFAWG, you might want to study geology/geo-physics.

"I would think it would be an ideal application, given that range isn't really the issue it is with passenger vehicles. Am I missing something?

Besides, nobody in the history of EVER has done it, amirite?


I grew up in farm country in southwest ND.  Many of these guys are running a 24/7 operation to get the crop into the ground for two to three weeks and some are out for 4 weeks.  I really don't see a feasible way to run a tractor without using diesel fuel.  You also must realize that these large tractors have  engines that are putting out 360-560 hp.  That would take an enormous electric engine to put out that kind of power.  Locomotives do it, but even they need to run a generator that burns guess what, diesel fuel.  Same thing getting the crop out of the ground, except that then they aren't running 24 hrs a day.  Late evening it usually gets to humid to thrash the grain. 

Do a search and read about the Abiotic Theories.  The Russians are or were drilling well past what is thought to be the "known" depth of organic matter.

And who can forget the Solyndra scandal.  The taxpayers are out half a billion dollars on that great green energy source.  And I think that I saw a blurb that there was another solar energy company that screwed the taxpayers out of more than Solyndra.