There’s more oil in Utah and Colorado than all of OPEC.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/american-oil-find-holds-oil-opec/story?id=17536852
Yeah, but you gotta remember that the saudis “warned” Trump that he better not cut off imports. Skerred yet? Didn’t slick willie lock up a YUGE chunk of Utah that had potential for shale deposits? Is there a key to unlock it? I also seem to remember that somehow the Colorado deposits weren’t at a level that would be profitable yet due to access.
A recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated that if half of the oil bound up in the rock of the Green River Formation could be recovered it would be "equal to the entire world's proven oil reserves."