[dkozloski]

There are 100s of billions of barrels of oil all over the world that are not economically recoverable with todays technology; Colorado shale, Athabascan shale, Atahabascan tar sands, Alaska heavy crude and oil sands. This North Dakota thing is nothing new. It just happened to make it back onto the radar screen and I'll bet there is some kind of promotion scheme behind it because the high price of crude is in the news. Fifty years ago there was talk of detonating nuclear explosions under goround to release oil from shale. These formations get rediscovered periodically as the price of crude goes up and down and the promotion schemes come and go.