{"id":6303,"date":"2012-03-08T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2012-03-08T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:41:26","slug":"north-dakota-surpasses-california-as-third-largest-oil-producing-state-bakken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/6303\/north-dakota-surpasses-california-as-third-largest-oil-producing-state-bakken","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Surpasses California As Third Largest Oil Producing State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota produced 16.9 million barrels of oil in January 2012, beating out California by more than one million barrels to become the country&#8217;s third largest oil producer.\u00a0Texas is the country&#8217;s largest oil producer, followed by Alaska. Some estimate that North Dakota could soon reach #2.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota has seen a surge of oil activity over the past couple years, rising from ninth place in 2006 to its newly established third-place position in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The oil boom has brought with it thousands of new jobs and people to the state, but has also brought with it increased crime and has put a strain on\u00a0infrastructure. While many have benefited greatly from the oil boom, there has also been some debate on whether all this oil activity is really such a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>What do think of all of this oil activity? Good or bad? <a href=\"#comments\">Share your thoughts below.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/6019952.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/6019952\/\">North Dakota&#8217;s Oil: Good or Bad For The State?<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota produced 16.9 million barrels of oil in January 2012, beating out California by more than one million barrels to become the country&#8217;s third largest oil producer.\u00a0Texas is the country&#8217;s largest oil producer, followed by Alaska. Some estimate that North Dakota could soon reach #2. North Dakota has seen a surge of oil activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,216,519,274],"tags":[791,492,150,491,151],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-featured","category-mandan-news","category-news","tag-bakken-oil","tag-energy","tag-north-dakota","tag-oil","tag-state"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}