For all intents and purposes, OPEC is now engaged in a price war with the United States. What that means is that it's very cheap to pump oil out of places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.But it's more expensive to extract oil from shale formations in places like Texas and North Dakota.or all intents and purposes, OPEC is now engaged in a price war with the United States. What that means is that it's very cheap to pump oil out of places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. But it's more expensive to extract oil from shale formations in places like Texas and North Dakota.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. ORIGIN OF PROVINCE NAME: Prince Edward Island was originally called Abegweit (lying down flat, or cradled by the waves) by the Micmac Indians. Europeans called it the Island of Saint John in 1763; in 1799 the island was renamed Prince Edward Island, in honor of Prince Edward of England. NICKNAME: The Garden Province, The Million Acre Farm, or Spud Island.
For other islands named after the Prince of Wales, see Prince of Wales Island (disambiguation) . Prince of Wales Island is one of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle.It is the fourth-largest island in the United States (after Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico) and the 97th-largest island in the world. British expedition in 1779, under Captain James Cook, passed Prince of Wales Island. Comte de La Perouse led a French expedition to the area in 1786. Karta Bay is the site of the first salmon saltery in Alaska.