Time suggests imports may have actually dropped slightly more in 2013 -- down to just 32%.
By the way, the link to Aries Residence Suites, above, is very interesting. I had not seen it before (if I have, I have forgotten). Aries has suites in Texas and North Dakota. In North Dakota: Tioga and Watford City:
Aries Residence Suites offers nightly, weekly, and monthly workforce housing (aka man camps) at two locations in the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota: Tioga & Watford City. Unlike typical man camps, our locations strive to offer amenities that make our guests feel like home. Whether you need temporary lodging or extended stay workforce housing, we hope you’ll discover the difference Aries Residence Suites provides!By the way, I believe North Dakota now accounts for 13% of US domestic production. Mark Perry, over at Carpe Diem provides a list of more North Dakota energy milestones, posted October 16, 201, including:
August marked the fifth straight month that daily oil production in the Peace Garden State exceeded one million barrels. Another important production milestone was reached in August, as average daily crude oil output from the state’s shale-rich Bakken oil fields topped one million bpd for the third straight month, as the Bakken recently joined an elite group of only ten oil fields in world history whose daily output exceeded one million barrels at peak production.When I read that last line, " ... the Bakken recently joined an elite group of only ten oil fields in world history whose daily output exceeded one million barrels at peak production" I am reminded that Snopes.com has never acknowledged their error on reporting the Bakken, and Jane Nielson's comment: " ... there's some oil in the Bakken, but not much." Or something to that effect.
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A most interesting book to re-read in light of the Ebola scare: DeFoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. The key: quarantine. My notes on the book here.
