"The Bakken potential resource, while large by US onshore field standards, will have only a minor effect on US production or imports. Using 2006 US imports and consumption for comparison, the Bakken undiscovered resource of 3,649 million barrels of oil, if subsequently discovered and fully developed, would provide us with the equivalent of six months of oil consumption or 10 months of imports, spread over 20 or more years. In reality, the reserves developed are likely to be many times smaller than this value."


I don't wanna arm wrestle this...but it's he said/they said depending
upon who's doing the guessing and interpolating. But, these "potential
reserve" numbers all tend to be similar to there are a trillion fish in
the ocean...but no one is going to catch even a % of them.

And, what the hell does McCain have to do with any of this? He's
running for Prez, not King.