[mountainlion]

The Green River shale has not been tapped. It is said to have 1000 barrels per acre or square mile, I forgot. The government controlled by current no drill dictates has much oil also. The Denver Post has an article on the oil shale with extraction at $35 a barrel before fracking came along.

I think these stories are fabricated to make it sound like oil supplies are short to rationalize high prices like gas over $3.00 for over 1000 days.

[thackney]

The Green River shale has not been tapped.

The Green River shale does not have crude oil that has been cooked out of the rock like the Bakken or Eagle Ford. It is a less thermally mature formation

It can only be produced by retorting, essentially cooking the shale to release kerogen, which is made into a synthetic crude oil for use in a refinery.

It is significantly more expensive. That $35 number turned out to be far off when Shell did their Mahogany Pilot project and turned the theories into actually flowing wells.

Mahogony Oil Shale Project
http://www.shell.us/aboutshell/projects-locations/mahogany/technology.html