[FeeinTennessee]

GO FOR IT!! USE THAT OIL! I certainly don't want to be dependant on other countries when we have so much oil to tap in here.....the resource is here, let's use it!

[M. Espinola]

Very interesting news. What is Congress waiting for? Drill!

[Vaquero]

You know Rush brought this up a month or so ago...the reason it hasn't been tapped up until now is that it is not cost effective to recover Oil Shale and Tar Sands until the price of oil is over $30 a barrel....now with $50 a barrel prices, things "SHOULD" move forward....but who knows what will finally trigger action on this...perhaps Orrin Hatch pushing it might get the ball rolling?

[beyond the sea]

"Why has Canada moved forward in leaps and bounds, while the United States has yet to take even a baby step in this direction?

I think he knows the answer to that question.

[nightdriver]

I have a gunny sack of this tar sand. It is very fine sand, like from a seashore. The amalgum is only slightly more juicy than road asphalt. A reverse solvent wash cleans it out of the sand quite easily and leaves a heavy tar.

[maestro]

Utah sits on huge oil reserve.....called the Public Lands and Parks of the U.S.A. in all states

/U.N.

[marvlus]

This is an opportunity for the USA to stick it to radical Islam.

[Drew68]

"Who would have guessed that in just Colorado and Utah, there is more recoverable oil than in the Middle East?"

FWIW, I think we should deplete the oil reserves from the Middle East before we tap into our stash.

[muawiyah]

Oil shale is a tad difficult to work with. There's a river of it about 10 miles wide extending from the Michigan border to the Ohio in Indiana.

It's also highly radioactive. (This is the stuff they used to make the now banned "black boards" out of).

That particular deposit could supply all our energy needs for many centuries.

[dennisw]

btttt

[Huck]

I hope it's nowhere near Arches or Bryce canyon or any of the other nat'l parks.

[Alex Marko]

The article fails to mention that technology to extract that sort of oil makes its more expensive than oil from the middle east. Canada's shale oil is normally 10 dollars more expensive than the market value.

[Edward Watson]

Apples and oranges. The Alberta oil sands costs around $13 to produce a barrel of synthetic crude oil whereas it will probably cost three times as much per barrel if using oil shale as the stock.

A better move would be to exponentially increase investment and development of the Alberta oil sands and just utilize or expand existing transcontinental pipelines into US hub markets.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

This is twenty year old news. Every time oil prices go up, they start talking about shale oil. My advice, don't hold your breath.

The word "shortage" doesn't appear anywhere in the Kingdom dictionary.

[thoughtomator]

"Who would have guessed that in just Colorado and Utah, there is more recoverable oil than in the Middle East?" Hatch said.

As I recall, I made this very guess (not specific to Colorado/Utah though) just a couple of weeks ago!

[Servant of the 9]

If they were commercially viable, they wouldn't need Congressional action to get developed.

Oil Shale and Tar Sands are not the same thing. At 50.00/barrel some tar sands are profitable, not all, no shale oil is.
Some tar sands in Canada are now marginally profitable.

All the major energy companies have had pilot plants to develop more economical recovery techniques running and experimenting for over 50 years.

If you don't mind paying around $100.00/barrel equivilent prices, then we have enough shale oil, tar sands natural gas, coal and tretiarily recoverable petroleum, to supply all our energy needs for the next 400 years.

So9

[windcliff]

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[<1/1,000,000th%]

Unless I'm confused again, in rough numbers this is about 100 years worth of oil at the US rate of use.

[SunkenCiv]

Bush Aide: Oil's Not Well With Annan
NY Post | April 22, 2005 | Post Wire Services
Posted on 04/23/2005 5:59:43 AM PDT by Liz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1389664/posts

[backtothestreets]

Keep importing until the Middle East runs dry, then start exporting and bring all our money home, plus some.