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To: HamiltonJay
If may cost $5.00 a barell to bring it up, but then you have to refine it, ship it, and of course put a nice lovely tax on top of it. So then what are we talking? $20.00 per barell?


53 posted on 09/02/2005 6:32:50 AM PDT by unixfox (AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
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To: unixfox

No, I'm talking CRUDE V CRUDE.. to get a bbl of CRUDE out of the ground in Saudi Arabia it costs em about $5 A BBL.. to get a bbl out of the ground from shale runs about $20 a bbl... thats raw cost.

When the "tipping point" is truly reached, and the easy to extract oil is honestly running out (its not right now, in spite of the naysayers) and prices on that shoot up, and have no chance at all of going down, that is when things like SHALE extraction will become worth doing... or when technology finds a cheaper way to extract it... but no matter what it will NEVER be as cheap as pumping liquid right out of the ground.

Shale oil also has other issues, above and beyond extrating the oil from the rock.. Its NOT a panacea, but it is good to know its there, and will be there when the low hanging fruit runs out. But we aren't at that point yet.


59 posted on 09/02/2005 6:47:35 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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