I didn't know it was ND light crude.. but i had been remarking the last few days of the huge number of oil tanker trains speeding across the plains. they are matched in number only by the coal-laden trains heading out to make electricity somewhere. And the tracks are up to the standard that the trains can outpace cars on the adjacent Interstate 94 where the speed limit is 75 and even that seems to be merely a suggestion.
The north dakotans would prefer to be exporting refined oil than crude.. they want the industry there, and don't really like being colonized by Exxon. I counted over 20 Halliburton trucks in western ND while passing through... anywhere one sees them, you just know they are up to no good. Tank trucks laden with hazmat placards indicating corrosives made it clear that they aren't shy about fracking in the least.
They are begging for workers... every radio station had ads for truck drivers and roughnecks, and support jobs such as carpenters. The area is booming unlike anything i have ever seen, there is a whole new town tacked onto Dickinson on the north side of the interstate, framed skeletons of buildings going up where just a few short years ago was merely antelope habitat.
And in the eastern half, where i hail from, GMO corn has made it almost impossible to not be rich if one had the least bit of farming ability... farmland has gone from $800-$1000 per acre for the best land to $5000-$6000 per acre in the span of five years. And can be paid off after just a couple years of incredible harvests from land that has never had corn on it before. but i will save what i think about that for another day.
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