If you can, you could term it delusion, the theory that Shale gas is the answer to all problems in terms of energy. Just extract the gas, ship it across the pipeline and export the excess, or so goes the popular theory (boom. How easy!). Let’s call this ‘Sale for Energy Security Theory’ or SEST) If you believe in SEST, here’s a simple task for you: Take a towel or cloth soaked in water. Wring it. Note the amount of water that comes out. Now, wring it again. Okay, once more. How many drops of water did you get in the third time? Two, three? This is precisely what’s happening in the Bakken. Imagine that there aren’t buckets of oil underneath the Bakken but towels soaked with oil. And it is only recently that we figured out the technique called “fracking”: how to wring a towel full of oil. […]