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We'd Be Crazy To Turn Backs On Oil Sands
IBD Editorials ^ | August 26, 2011 | ROBERT J. SAMUELSON

Posted on 08/27/2011 4:17:28 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/27/2011 4:17:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I turn her back on the Canadian oil sands. The Bakken Oil Strata in North Dakota, Montana and South Dakota are tremendous resources within our borders.

BTW it's been estimated that we have about 100 years worth of lighnite coal which can be gasified to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, natural gas and helium with NO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT!

2 posted on 08/27/2011 4:29:27 AM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.)
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OIl Shale
While oil shale is found in many places worldwide, by far the largest deposits in the world are found in the United States in the Green River Formation, which covers portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Estimates of the oil resource in place within the Green River Formation range from 1.2 to 1.8 trillion barrels. Not all resources in place are recoverable; however, 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. Present U.S. demand for petroleum products is about 20 million barrels per day. If oil shale could be used to meet a quarter of that demand, the estimated 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from the Green River Formation would last for more than 400 years.
3 posted on 08/27/2011 4:42:33 AM PDT by lbryce (BHO:Satan's Evil Twin)
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To: Young Werther
Aw, gee...thanks, Young Werther.

I bookmark interesting articles for my husband so he can look over them later.

This cannot be bookmarked, Young Werther, because of your (ahem) post. I'll have to cut and paste or read it out loud.

Either way, one of us have to do extra work because of you photo!

BWAAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAW.......

4 posted on 08/27/2011 4:48:52 AM PDT by hummingbird
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To: Young Werther

Let the Canadians drink their oil, we can turn coal into gas cheaper.


5 posted on 08/27/2011 4:51:15 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: Young Werther

With that rocker who would need heat in the winter.


6 posted on 08/27/2011 4:52:45 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: Kaslin

Come now, our policy ever since OPEC has been to pay inflated oil prices to the Arabs so we could ‘bring them into the twenty-first century’, although actually it was the twentieth century when we agreed to this.

And now that Zero is in the WH, why in the world would we want to undercut our devotion to paying blackmail to Muslims? Nobody has been honest with the American taxpayer. Nobody. And it’s appalling. Well, I understand now why honesty isn’t in the cards, it’s not PC.


7 posted on 08/27/2011 4:55:07 AM PDT by hershey
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To: org.whodat

You obviously didn’t get the message that the arrogant pos that currently resides at 1600 wants to ban coal


8 posted on 08/27/2011 5:00:12 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Kaslin.


9 posted on 08/27/2011 5:05:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Kaslin

Susan Casey-Lefkowitz of the Natural Resource Defense Council reminds

Sister of Debbie Wasserman-Schulz? Hmmm.

10 posted on 08/27/2011 5:18:16 AM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: Kaslin

When it’s on our continent and it comes from a stable source we better take advantage of it. I want to use shale, sand, coal, bio waste and anything else that makes sense.


11 posted on 08/27/2011 5:19:11 AM PDT by Recon Dad ("Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way..")
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To: SunkenCiv

We have energy supplies like oil,gas and nuclear that would more than suffice America but we have fools and liars and thieves in DC who hate America, the politicians, who have corraled the foolish of America into using useless energy supplies like wind and solar by fiat laws.
Before we can use our God provided energy supplies, we must rid ourselves of the evil democrats and rinos who are destroying us in DC.


12 posted on 08/27/2011 5:20:40 AM PDT by kindred ( Third party conservatism is on the rise, God bless the conservative tea party.)
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To: lbryce

That’s amazing.


13 posted on 08/27/2011 5:20:57 AM PDT by Aetius
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To: kindred

Amen brother, Amen! Until we clean out the garbage in D.C. we will continue to be on a downhill spiral!


14 posted on 08/27/2011 5:51:24 AM PDT by gbscott1954 (Sarah 2012!!!)
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To: Kaslin
"You obviously didn’t get the message that the arrogant pos that currently resides at 1600 wants to ban coal"

And that's just for starters.

He would like to do the same for all fossil fuel and probably nukes, too. Exxon made a huge oil find in the Gulf and he pulled their drilling permit. Shale oil probably won't fare much better as long as he is around.

We have to get oust him in 2012 for the sake of the country.

15 posted on 08/27/2011 6:06:16 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: Aetius

The fundamental drawback to oil shale, besides, the cost, production to extract the oil trapped in the shale is environmental.


16 posted on 08/27/2011 6:06:21 AM PDT by lbryce (BHO:Satan's Evil Twin)
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To: org.whodat

You didn’t read the article, did you?


17 posted on 08/27/2011 6:06:56 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (We .. have a purpose .. no longer to please every dictator with a vote at the UN. PM Harper)
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To: Kaslin; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...

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18 posted on 08/27/2011 6:11:36 AM PDT by Clive
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To: org.whodat
"Let the Canadians drink their oil, we can turn coal into gas cheaper."

I VERY seriously doubt that. I'm familiar with both processes, and getting the oil from sands is a LOT simpler than gasification and Fischer-Tropsch.

19 posted on 08/27/2011 6:25:33 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Recon Dad
"I want to use shale, sand, coal, bio waste and anything else that makes sense."

Amen, brother!

20 posted on 08/27/2011 6:26:56 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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