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 estimate cited in the e-mail.
Issues: offshore drilling
Environmental Group’s Ad Distorts Bush’s Record on Florida Drilling
It says he “opened up Florida’s coast” to offshore oil and gas wells. That’s off base — by 100 miles.