US GOVERNMENT: North Dakota Has Way More Energy Than We Previously Thought en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:10:04 -0500 Rob Wile Infrequentguest Wed, 01 May 2013 00:25:43 -0400 Oh no! We have to allow all the oil and gas companies to extract all of it right now! Otherwise, how will they control the supply in the US for generations? Can you even imagine how stressful it would be for an oil and gas producer to not be able to optimize their profits? The shame--that would be like being below the poverty line! sagebrush Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:09:46 -0400 They deserve it, anyone who could live in americas siberia deserves to strike it big in the oil patch. Nat Gas vehicles are in production Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:54:31 -0400 Nat Gas powered vehicles are on the way --trucks will be the first large market segment. Cummins is engineering Nat Gas engines for 18 wheelers and have some up and running and there are several large companies putting together the fueling stations along the major highway systems in the USA. Nat Gas fueling stations are running $1 million per unit to construct. T.Boone Pickens is partnered with one group to build Nat Gas refueling stations along the major transportation arteries across the USA. And a Chinese company is investing $100 million initially and then plans a whole lot more. Nat Gas powered long haul trucks are a great fit for Nat Gas with their long trip segments and the ability to haul the fuel --which should result in less oil consumption in the U.S. and lowered pollution levels across the country. billyparker1 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:55:47 -0400 Peak Oil is not dead. I just checked and crude is still $90+/barrel despite increased output from ND. We're still post peak CHEAP oil. If we weren't post peak oil the price wouldn't be so high. At least the ND fields will provide much needed domestic jobs. dongateley Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:25:41 -0400 Great news! Not a long term solution but we need all the breathing space we can get to buy time working that out. We will. It won't be too cheap to meter but not too far from it either. My personal favorite long term contender (not necessarily the most likely but technologically the most fun) is the Traveling Wave Reactor that Bill Gates has invested in: <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> At the very least there is more than enough fuel for TWR's in existence in a harmless "depleted" form to buy the time that may be needed to get us to the essentially infinite solution of fusion. So there is a way to get from here to there; we've just got to do it. Robt Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:41:58 -0400 Taxes. Next question? floridiot Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:36:37 -0400 Because you have no viable alternative...except diesel for $4.75. floridiot Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:35:08 -0400 Classic chicken & egg problem. I won't buy a CNG car because I have nowhere to fuel it up. I can't buy a CNG car because they aren't selling (or even for sale). My local exxon won't sell CNG because no one will buy it because the cars haven't been sold. Anyone think a big government program could fix this? Sure it could but we know that would be evil. WHATTHE Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:30:12 -0400 Oil oil everywhere..........WHY IS IT STILL $4 A GALLON THEN?????????????????? floridiot Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:28:54 -0400 Let me guess....You are afraid the oil/gas will spoil if development is slowed down by environmental regulations? Leave something for the grandkids to burn in 2062. lawnchair Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:24:14 -0400 We have fewer CNG cars on the road than Egypt or Thailand. Not per-capita... fewer actual cars. Argentina alone has more than 10x the number in the US and Canada combined. Are we over-regulated compared to the rest of the world on CNG safety (if we had to approve gasoline-powered vehicles as a new thing today, I'm not sure we could on safety grounds)? Is there some conspiracy keeping CNG cars down? Or is it just that nobody with money to stake on it really believes that North America will still be awash in cheap NG in 5-7 years? In 5 years half the US cars ought to run with nat gas Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:12:14 -0400 We have so much natural gas and yet we keep importing oil from the Middle East. What gives. Conservative in the ATL Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:12:08 -0400 Can't tell from the article whether these resources are on private lands (available for commercial development) or on public lands (certain to be limited by virtue of Obama's EPA). I hope the former.