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U.S. Oil Reserves

Posted on March 16, 2009 , Updated on November 4, 2011

Q: Are anti-drilling forces blocking access to the world’s largest oil reserve in the western U.S.? A: The Bakken Formation touted in a chain e-mail isn’t the world’s largest oil reserve. The amount of oil it contains, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, is less than one one-hundredth of the …
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