[MplsSteve]

Interesting article. Thanks for posting it.

I've heard that there are substantial deposits of shale oil here in the US - but economicaly, it's been unfeasable to drill for it.

Hopefully, this one will work.

[RippleFire]

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[AmericaUnited]

The US should do this on a massive scale, even if we just break even, for national security purposes and to SCREW OPEC.

[Mike Darancette]

Believe me the Watermelons and RAT Congresscritters will fight this to the death.

If they will not allow the small footprint operation near ANWR

[Thud]

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[McGavin999]

OMG, can you imagine? We would be totally free of dependence on other countries for oil! That would be incredible.

[FreeRep]

Good post. Look at the Northern Rocky Mountains States and High Great Plains region USA/Canada, they have abundant domestic natural gas, coal bed natural gas, and coal and oil-shale and nuclear resources, so vast as to supply America's energy needs for at least 300-500 year to around $100 TRILLION. The Northern regions are the FUTURE for the USA and our energy companies, we don't need to go Hat-in-Hand overseas for our energy needs.

[TEXOKIE]

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[Brilliant]

Alright, but it took them ten months to get 1,500 barrels of oil. That is not enough.

[BulletBobCo]

The Rats will protest....."We must protect the prairie dogs!"

[tomkat]

~ bookmarked ~

[operation clinton cleanup]

Now that Bush is a lame duck, maybe it's time for some executive orders to get this moving.... like Clinton did in the opposite direction.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Nooooo! We must SAVE the land for the spotted snot fly and the narrow leaf shitweed!

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Great news! Until the environuts do everything in their power to stop the spoiling of the "unspoiled Colorado wilderness."

[Tanniker Smith]

Forget it. Go with corn. It's the new oil.

[Mr_Moonlight]

bookmarked for later reading/research

[Enchante]

"Upwards of a million barrels an acre, a billion barrels a square mile. And the oil shale formation in the Green River Basin, most of which is in Colorado, covers more than a thousand square miles - the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world."

That's roughly an area 32 miles x 32 miles, (of course it's certainly not in any perfect square!!) in one of the most desolate parts of the continent (I have been on all sides of that corner of Colorado/Wyoming/Utah.... only right along the Green River itself is there anything to write home about). Can't you just wait to see how environmentalists will suddenly wax poetic about how these scrubby, barren wastelands are suddenly the most precious wilderness in North America????

[oceanagirl]

The Energy Returned on Energy Invested ("ERoEI") of shale oil is reported to be quite low, say 3:2 to 2:1, similar to that of tar sands. That means that a producer would get 3 barrels of oil out and processed by using 2. When the price of energy goes up, so does the price of producing and refining the shale oil. There is a saying: "Shale oil. Fuel of the future and always will be."

"Shale oil" isn't even real oil. It's a substance called kerogen, which is an oil precursor. It requires considerable, energy-intensive processing to turn it into usable products, like gasoline, diesel and heating oil. It also has required considerable amounts of water to process, which is in very short supply in the intermountain west, unlike northern Alberta.

I'll be thrilled if shale oil can be made to work, but I'm not betting the farm on it.

[msf92497]

Fight for an Energy-Independant USA...NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brian328i]

something you might want to ping?