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The new OPEC?
« on: 2011-10-01, 11:15:51 »
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576602524023932438.html
Interesting article about a self-made man, a wildcat oil driller that says America will be the next OPEC. We could conceivably drill our way out of debt within ten years and our administration wants to develop ‘green’ technology? -  Really? :o

Perhaps in the next several months we’ll hear more and more people moving to North Dakota for work.  ;)
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #1 on: 2011-10-01, 14:58:56 »
It's already happening.  North & South Dakota have very high standard of living, low crime, high education, and LOW taxes.  It's great, if you can handle the cold (which I love).  ;)

Lots of folks from the upper midwest are relocating to the Dakotas.
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #2 on: 2011-10-05, 22:51:48 »
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i live in cold now, whats the difference hehehe
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #3 on: 2011-10-05, 23:38:08 »
It would take a Stupidly good reason for me to move back to South Dakota. -55'F is just not fun.
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #4 on: 2011-10-06, 19:32:02 »
Quote from: Sir Brian on 2011-10-01, 11:15:51
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576602524023932438.html
Interesting article about a self-made man, a wildcat oil driller that says America will be the next OPEC. We could conceivably drill our way out of debt within ten years and our administration wants to develop ‘green’ technology? -  Really? :o

Perhaps in the next several months we’ll hear more and more people moving to North Dakota for work.  ;)


You do realize that the oil reserves are finite?  That they will run out eventually?  W/out greener technology, we could quickly find ourselves in a seeming backwash of antiquity...all of the millions of cars on the road become instant junk relics, and we'd all have to make do with electric cars.  I vote for a return to horseback riding as a means of regular transportation.
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #5 on: 2011-10-06, 19:41:38 »

I'm still waiting for a Star-Trek transporter. But then again, since it's disintegrates and reconstitutes a person, I'm not convinced the person stepping out the other side would actually be me. Just a perfect duplicate. :)
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #6 on: 2011-10-06, 20:37:03 »
Which begs the question...how many times did they have to run experiments before they finally got it right?  And of the first people to try it out- how many of them were reconstituted correctly?  I see early versions putting people back together all willy-nilly...as early models would only account for overall body mass and composition, not limb or organ placement, which spells immediate death upon arrival.

Yea...as cool as it sounds, no transporters for yours truly.  How do you know where you're really going?  I could see them transporting undesirables to some site off-planet...a site that is NOT hermetically sealed or given an atmosphere that is comparable to Earth's.  lol
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #7 on: 2011-10-07, 13:35:37 »
Yeah. Doc McCoy had it right. And the scene from Star Trek 2 when the new first officer was not well reassembled gave me the creeps as a kid.
Testing that would take either someone with no fear, or someone with nothing left to fear.
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #8 on: 2011-10-07, 16:16:23 »
Or convicts...lol
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #9 on: 2011-10-07, 20:30:06 »
Quote from: Sir William on 2011-10-06, 19:32:02
Quote from: Sir Brian on 2011-10-01, 11:15:51
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576602524023932438.html
Interesting article about a self-made man, a wildcat oil driller that says America will be the next OPEC. We could conceivably drill our way out of debt within ten years and our administration wants to develop ‘green’ technology? -  Really? :o

Perhaps in the next several months we’ll hear more and more people moving to North Dakota for work.  ;)


You do realize that the oil reserves are finite?  That they will run out eventually?  W/out greener technology, we could quickly find ourselves in a seeming backwash of antiquity...all of the millions of cars on the road become instant junk relics, and we'd all have to make do with electric cars.  I vote for a return to horseback riding as a means of regular transportation.

+1 on horses, but at 100 miles round trip, I think Sir Edward and I would have a rather tedious commute to say the least.

For the Star Trek teleporter thing ... look up "The Philadelphia Project", for fun. It talks about a teleporting ship that had some of the crew members fused to the hull when it returned. Fiction, Non-Fiction, I dunno, but it's a fun story nonetheless.
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Re: The new OPEC?
« Reply #10 on: 2011-10-11, 14:31:06 »
That just means it better be damned important if YOU have to show up in the office.  lol
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