Gov.Brian Schweitzer interview on Bakken Oil Field

[Airflores322]

We Amerikans are too damn stupid, we'll continue to allow these criminal globalists to continue to enslave us and our children and we'll never do a damn thing about it!!! If you're happy and you know it clack your chains.....if you're haaaaapy and yoooou knoooow it CLAAAAAAACK YOOOOOOUR CHAAAAAAAAAAAAINS!!!!! CLACK CLACK!!!!

[kjgumm]

@Airflores322

There is a lot of drilling going on in NE Montana. None of our oil here comes from the middle east. Ours comes from Montana and Wyoming. Pluse we have many oil refineries here.

They just need to pass the oil pipeline....which I doubt they will. Every time I look at a paper there are so many permits for oil ...!

The US needs to NOT be dependent on the middle east. Period.

[mtconquest]

actually it could have up to 500billion.. saudi arabia has about 25 billion... suck it middle east

[jeepgayguy]

THEN F****IN' DO IT THEN!!!!

[kjgumm]

vjsurfandmusic, I agree , if you live in the city , driving an alternate fuel, electric or hybred would be great .

In rural Montana ,you couldnt pull hay or horses with a little hybred. Some of us are forced to use FUEL and drive large trucks . That goes for semi drivers that deliver our food and supplies. But cities , you bet !

[vjsurfandmusic]

The numbers in this interview aare based on speculation. I would love for there to be that much oil in the Bakken. The best solution is to figure out how to use less oil.

[vanwahlgren]

The governor said it right.. It is more than a mile deep and Locked Up in ROCK!. .. Wonder why Exxon hasn't tapped into this?? Its easier to git oil outta the deep water gulf. Maybe some day they can rip 1 mile of overburden and boil it like the Alberta tar sand. However digging up 1 mile of rock covering is pretty expensive as it boiling rocks to "free up the OIL"

Megan is just trying to score some points against Obama. She hates America so much she can't stand it.

[benjaminlately]

His numbers are way off... Drops in the bucket

[xxxBradTxxx]

All I have to say is HOLY FUCK 40,000,000,000 gallons

Screw the Saudi Arabians drill in Montana and North Dakota

I love what he says at 2:22 the feds end up messing it up

[kjgumm]

If America would use its resourses, (we have more oil that Saudi Arabia) we could build a ski lodge in the middle of Death Valley too !

It would help wipe out our Debt to China,and get a balanced budget .

Watch the movie I.O.U.S.A. ......

[rteskew]

Except that the USGS and EIA both think it is only at most 4 billion barrels - about one year's replacement. Maybe he is looking or investment money. Who cares if it never yields a return - they have your money. That is what he says at first - the 40 billion barrels is his wild dream.

[JackBlair2]

DRILL BABY DRILL

[smeltersam]

With new horizontal drill technology, companies are now able to extract 10 times as much oil in the Bakkens as compared to when they initally started drilling it. At the moment large cap plays have started to buy out small caps in the area and staking large claims as well. If your a believer and an investor in oil, take a look at some of these plays. US: EERG, WSEG, CPWC CDN: RYD, ATK, REL.

Crescent Point Energy(CPG) alone has acquired seven small cap plays this year.

[Tamagotchi055]

!GUYS ONLY! looking to chat just got new laptop J

[Ficker2]

Bakken isn't a field. It's formation that consists of thousands of tiny "fields".

[bam6956]

to bad that americas #1 foreign supplier is canada get some facts

[lostinseganet]

I thought it was mexico.

[bam6956]

wrong canada #1 with the 2nd largest oil reserves just the facts for uninformed americans who only get propaganda on network news

[quuaa1]

Yeah, but those Greenpeace assholes are pissing me off. All I hear about is "dirty oil" and why Americans should turn down our oil. My message to Greenpeace - fuck off.

[lostinseganet]

Hmmm he said they are having problems reaching it. Perhaps synthetic diamond tiped drills would help. They can be made to be harder then a normal diamond too.