Terror Free Oil

[4RE KLR]

The country's first "terror-free" oil gas station nears completion in Omaha, Neb. Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gas made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative plans to open the country's first "terror-free" gas station in Nebraska. (Nati Harnik/AP Photo)

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/s...2830890&page=1

[Wes Tausend]

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Good for them! Hope they can pull it off.

We might eventually get our own fuel supply in ND. I once mentioned in a previous thread that we have both a state bank and state mill and elevator here in North Dakota. Some people are now pushing for our own state owned oil refinery. Things like this fly here because our state government has been very frugal in the past and is fairly well trusted. Our legislature is primarily classical Republican but the idea is socialistic so it may get shot down.

One of the reasons this might be desired is that we had, and have, quite gas shortage here and local commercial refineries could not, or would not, sell their refined products to local distributors. Local distributors had to buy gas and diesel from out-of-state sources at considerably higher prices and then ship it back here. The torches and pitchforks came out and the wild hordes demanded change.

We have plenty of high quality crude in the state and they, in turn, must sell at a discount to refineries out of state through some suspicious arrangement. Crude that is now refined here often comes from out-of-state, at higher prices of course. A bit baffling to say the least.

ND refinery link: ( http://www.bismarcktribune.com/artic...ews/144713.txt )

Also in the works, a refinery on a Native American reservation:
( http://minnesota.publicradio.org/dis...18/ndrefinery/ )


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[J. T. Toad]

North Dakota huh? hmmmmm.....

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...news2.13s.html

[Wes Tausend]

Originally Posted by J. T. Toad

North Dakota huh? hmmmmm.....

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...news2.13s.html

Yup. Anybody who's job moved over seas can come here and work as a roughneck. It's booming.
And say goodbye to civilization here in the outback.

A co-worker just told me that they are paying $20/hr to drive crude trucks, all the overtime one could want. Driving is the easy part of producing crude. Course $20/hr is considered good money here but may not be that great nationally. Roughneck pays more, though.


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[4RE KLR]

Wes,

Well it is good money because it does not cost as much to live in that area as it does in others.

I hope they make it as well and we can at least start to become independent.