Closing Out Some Polls; New Poll -- October 11, 2015

Let's close out some polls.

What is the primary reason for the recent rise in the price of WTI oil?

• strength/weakness of the dollar: 11%
• fundamentals (US production is declining): 26%
• Russian involvement in Syria: 59%
• Other: 4% (market manipulation; short squeeze)

Badlands NGLs will site their proposed $4 billion petrochemical plant near:

• Williston: 14%
• Watford City: 39%
  Tioga: 19%
• Minot: 19%
• Other: 10% (won't happen; Bismarck, Dickinson, Jamestown, Linton, Glen Ullin, Mandan, Fargo)

Will active rig count in North Dakota drop below 60 before June, 2016?

• Yes: 56%
• No: 44%

New poll: for August, 2015, will North Dakota crude oil production exceed one million bopd?

• Yes: 
• No:

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For Those Who Are Not Paying Attention

The Register is reporting:

It's very sad that in this country political opinion parted. I'm 100 per cent Democrat myself, and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on this issue [global warming], and the Republicans took the right side. -- Freeman Dyson, Physicist

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