Subject: OIL - You should be sitting down when you read this!

Subject: OIL - You should be sitting down when you read this!

  Next time you have to fill up at  $3.84/gallon, think of  this!!

As you may know, Cruz  Construction started a division in North Dakota
just 6 months ago.   They sent every Kenworth (9 trucks) we had here in
Alaska to North Dakota,  and several drivers.  They just bought two new
Kenworths to add to  that fleet; one being a Tri  Drive
tractor and a new 65 ton lowboy to  go with it.  They also bought two new
cranes (one crawler and one  rubber  tired) for that division.

Dave Cruz said they have moved  more rigs in the last 6 months in ND than
Cruz Construction moved in Alaska  in the last 6 years.

Williston is like a gold rush town; they moved one  of our 40-man camps
down there since there are no rooms  available.

Unemployment in ND is the lowest in the nation at 3.4  percent last I
checked. See anything in the national news about how the oil  industry
is fueling North Dakota's economy?

Here's an astonishing  read.  Important and verifiable information:
About 6 months ago, the  writer was watching a news program on oil and
one of the Forbes Bros. was  the guest.  The Bakken is the largest
domestic oil discovery since  Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, and has the potential
to eliminate all American  dependence on foreign  oil. The Energy
Information Administration  (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels.
Even if just 10% of the oil is  recoverable (5 billion barrels), at $107
a barrel, we're looking at a  resource base worth more than $5.3
trillion.

"When I first briefed  legislators on this, you could practically see
their jaws hit the floor.  They had no idea.." says Terry Johnson,  the
Montana Legislature's  financial analyst.
However, a  recent technological breakthrough has  opened up the Bakken's
massive reserves, and we now have access of up to  500 billion barrels.
And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions  of barrels will
cost
Americans just $16 PER BARREL !!!!!!  That's  enough crude to fully fuel
the American economy for 2041 years  straight.

And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one  should -
because  it's from 2006 !!!!!!
U. S. Oil Discovery -  Largest Reserve in the World
Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006
Hidden  1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky
Mountains lies  the  largest untapped oil reserve in the world.
It is more than 2 TRILLION  barrels.  On August 8, 2005 President Bush
mandated its extraction. In  three and a half years of high oil prices
none has been  extracted.

With this motherload of oil why are we still fighting over  off-shore
drilling? They reported this stunning news: We have more oil  inside  our
borders, than all the other proven reserves on  earth.

Here are the official estimates:

8 times as much oil as  Saudi Arabia
18 times as much oil as Iraq
21 times as much oil as  Kuwait
22 times as much oil as Iran
500 times as much oil as  Yemen,
and it's all right here in the Western United States!!

HOW  can this  BE?
HOW can we NOT BE extracting this?
Because the  environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to
help America  become independent of foreign oil!  Again, we are letting a
small  group of people dictate our lives and our economy. WHY?

James Bartis,  lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in
this very compact  area than the entire Middle East, more than  2
TRILLION barrels  untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves
of crude oil  in
the world today, reports The Denver Post.  Don't think 'OPEC' will  drop
its price even with this find?  Think again!  It's all about  the
competitive marketplace, it has to.  Think OPEC just might be  funding
the environmentalists?
Got your attention yet?  Now, while  you're thinking about it, do this:
Pass this along. If you don't take a  little time to do this, then you
should stifle yourself the  next time  you complain about gas prices.
By doing NOTHING, you forfeit your right to  complain.

Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every  one of you
sent this to everyone in your address book.
By the way, this  can be verified. Check it out at the link below !!!!!!

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911