Drill, Baby! Drill!! President Obama Opens Up Alaska Drilling for Natural Gas & Oil

Here’s how Democrats shut the mouths of naysaying Republicans.

Alaska’s Shale Oil Tops Eagle Ford, Trails Bakken, U.S. Says

February 24, 2012, 4:37 PM ESTBy Katarzyna Klimasinska

Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Alaska’s North Slope shale formation may hold as much as 2 billion barrels of oil, the second-largest U.S. deposit of unconventional crude after the Bakken in North Dakota and more than the Eagle Ford in Texas.

The region may also hold as much as 80 trillion cubic feet of gas, the fourth-largest gas-shale deposit after Marcellus in the Northeast, Haynesville in Texas and Louisiana, and the Eagle Ford, the U.S. Geological Survey said today.

“Alaska’s energy resources hold great promise and economic opportunity for the American people,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today in an e-mailed statement.

President Barack Obama’s administration and the state of Alaska are

NASA Foul Up

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This brief entry could perhaps be alternately entitled, “How did we manage to foul (or your choice of expletives) up so badly?”

Why?