What`s their motive?
I think according to US geological surveys there are close to 2 TRILLION barrels of shale oil in the USA, more il than there is in Saudi Arabia.
Why is the radical left against US energy independence ?
I think according to US geological surveys there are close to 2 TRILLION barrels of shale oil in the USA, more il than there is in Saudi Arabia.
Why is the radical left against US energy independence
You are right there are trillions of barrels of oil in oil shale in the U.S..Democrats have banned companies from using most of the oil shale in the U.S.. This amount of oil could power the U.S. for hundreds of years.
The Democrats/Marxists' motive is to destroy capitalism so they can institute socialism, and also to destroy the U.S. economy so that the people are poor and dependent on government. This is why Democrats made up the global warming lie and all the other "environmental pollution" lies.
I think according to US geological surveys there are close to 2 TRILLION barrels of shale oil in the USA, more il than there is in Saudi Arabia.
Why is the radical left against US energy independence
You are right there are trillions of barrels of oil in oil shale in the U.S..Democrats have banned companies from using most of the oil shale in the U.S.. This amount of oil could power the U.S. for hundreds of years.
The Democrats/Marxists' motive is to destroy capitalism so they can institute socialism, and also to destroy the U.S. economy so that the people are poor and dependent on government. This is why Democrats made up the global warming lie and all the other "environmental pollution" lies.
The key to energy independence for The U.S. is to use its 300 years of coal and convert that to oil through coal liquefaction. Also use nuclear power plants to power everything and use coal plants only for oil liquefaction ,and then use the trillion barrels of oil in oil shale which is now off limits as Democrats/Communists in Congress banned development of oil shale in the Western U.S.
The Republican bill, the Gas Price Reduction Act needs to be passed by Congress. It in part will lift the Democrat bans on 118 billion barrels of oil in the outer Continental Shelf and it will also lift the ban on a trillion barrels of oil in oil shale in the Western United States which no one knows about. Democrats of course will try to stop this bill. Please call Republican Mitch McConnell to thank him for pushing this bill and please send these links to everyone.
"The 'Find More' provisions(in the bill) include increased exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf, where states want it, and lifting the ban on western oil shale exploration."We should also lift the ban on oil shale development which the new Democrat Congress enacted last year. Our western states are sitting on a sea of oil three times as large as the oil reserves in Saudi Arabia. Yet, at the insistence of the Democrat majority, we aren't allowed to touch it. They've put a 100 percent ban on oil shale exploration. With gas prices at more than $4 a gallon, this prohibition makes no sense.
Correct.
The vast extent of U.S. oil shale resources, amounting to more than 2 trillion barrels, has been known for a century.
Oil Shale Activities
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/npr_oil_shale_program.html
The 800 million is based on recoverable portion of just Green River formation.
...even a moderate estimate of 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from oil shale in the Green River Formation is three times greater than the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.
At the rate of 20 million barrels of consumption per day in the US, that appears to be 100,000 days.
Or, to look at it another way, that would be 273 years.
And the Democrats object because why?