Oil schizophrenia - The US still imports about 40% of our oil needs. We have tons of natural gas and yet as a nation we will not move from one to the other for our cars. Nor will we embrace the electric car.
We will send our troops into any oil rich region but to actually change anything at home is out of the question. As a nation we seem to lack the ability to do any long range planning.
We burn $1.2 Billion a year in natural gas just in the Bakken.
The rush to implement North Dakota's new flaring standards.
"Every day, drillers in the Bakken burn off about 350 million cubic feet of natural gas. That comes to more than $100 million worth of gas burned off each month?a figure that makes the state's mineral rights holders' unhappy."