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Charting the Course of Bakken Shale Oil

Popular Mechanics has a very cool graphic that explains fracking, and the routes oil takes from windswept North Dakota, across Canada via trucks, and then down to the Philadelphia refineries via river barge.

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Charting the course of Bakken Shale oil.

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