[ripley]

Psychotic Progressives.

IMHO

[Gaffer]

Massive potential reserves. Unfettered access to locate, retrieve, process and market the product?

Government would lose control. They wouldn't be able to try to make the sheep believe high prices (including their massive government taxes) are the result of scarcity and world conditions beyond the control of the government.

Of course, government and the liberals that control it are scared shitless of such a situation. They will continue to hide, obfuscate and tax the products Americans (at least those working and paying taxes) need to excel.

[Former Proud Canadian]

The United States is an energy colossus. If you close down the EPA and the Interior Department and lease out the land for developement, the “energy crisis” will be over in a few months. Yes, months. Once the market realizes that the US is serious about developing their own resources, prices will fall quickly.

[rellimpank]

--oil companies, con men, assorted promoters and considerable numbers of charlatans have been trying to make something of the Colorado-Wyoming-Utah "oil shale' for nearly a century.

--the primary problem with the stuff is that all of that "oil" is scattered widely through trillions of tons of rock--

--there are no magic ways of getting it out--and it is not similar to the Bakken or the Texas shale deposits---

[Tanniker Smith]

If anyone is interested in Old-Time Radio, there was an episode of Escape based on the story. I heard it years ago, but I didn't remember who had written the original short story.

Here's the link:

1947-07-21

The Diamond As Big As the Ritz (30 min)

[djf]

30X35 miles?

Don’t get too excited.

They will “find” some native American bones there and the whole place will get locked down as a sacred site.

Happens all the time.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

But, but . . . Paul Tonko says shale oil is not ready for prime time, and he should know, because he was an engineer before he became a solon . . .

Check out this crap.

Honest question: how is it possible to have a background in engineering and be a bleeding heart liberal?

[citizen]

Obama can simply fast-track the region to be declared a national park the way Clintoon did for the Escalante coal area in Utah.

[buffaloguy]

Buffaloguy looks over the top of his reading glasses and sez:

The Green River field is the tip of the iceberg. You do the math.

[Reeses]

the value of the oil that might be recovered from federally owned land is over $60 trillion

Time is of the essence. Within 100 years we will likely be growing all our oil on the open oceans. Any of the $60 trillion in wealth still in the ground becomes completely worthless. It is a fast depreciating asset of humongous proportions. Drill for oil like it's going out of style, because it is.

[Army Air Corps]

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