LabGuy,
Dunno where you get some of the stuff you toss up here...
A lil' GOOG'ng/Snopes shows a plethora of less than sanquine views
on the Bakken "field"...I won't bother to paste the long arts.
by petro/geologists, but the gist seems to be there is about
a year's worth of US consumption, max, and less than that
is recoverable with current methods and widly expensive for
the effort.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3868