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The state may hold 40 billion barrels of oil. Best of all: No burqas.

Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer has a plan to solve the oil crisism, the New York Post reported.

Drill.

The feds say there are 4.3 billion barrels in his state.

“They are always conservative,” said Schweitzer, who greeted me in his office dressed in jeans, a white shirt and a string tie. “There will be more. It’ll probably be more like 40 billion.”

And people of Montana would be happy to help out.

“We’ve been drilling out there for 70 years,” said Schweitzer of the Bakken area. “People there like new oil production. In fact, the city of Sydney [the county seat] wants to build a refinery. Where else in America do you have a community that says, ‘we want to build a refinery in our backyard?’ ”

As Cleveland Browns fans used to say: Do it, Pruett.

via Don Surber.

(Hat tip: Instapundit)
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