Posted on 06/07/2008 12:10:09 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- You'd think this would be oil shale's moment.
You'd think with gas prices topping $4 and consumers crying uncle, Congress would be moving fast to spur development of a domestic oil resource so vast - 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming alone - it could eventually rival the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.
You'd think politicians would be tripping over themselves to arrange photo-ops with Harold Vinegar (whom I profiled in Fortune last November), the brilliant, Brooklyn-born chief scientist at Royal Dutch Shell whose research cracked the code on how to efficiently and cleanly convert oil shale - a rock-like fossil fuel known to geologists as kerogen - into light crude oil.
You'd think all of this, but you'd be wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Say what you want. It doesn’t matter. If you are an oil company then get to work.
Can you just answer a simple question?
Apparently not.
I don’t consider the ruin of our economy “BBS”.
We can do whatever we set our minds to.
Why should we just give up?
So now you want to change the subject.
The oil co’s do want to drill for the oil.
How is that a problem?
Maybe you missed the fact that the Senate recently voted not to lift the moratorium on oil shale extraction.
It was a party line vote. Your opinion is lockstep with the Democrats who unanimously voted to block the concept.
LOL
Such as elect a Conservative Congress and President this fall? Yes! Just set our minds to it.
So then as far as you are concerned we are doomed.
How far the propaganda has corrupted your mind is staggering.
You don’t know my opinion.
Shell has already developed a pilot "in situ" oil extraction process.
Having been in engineering my entire life I go by the maxim "if you can sign their pay checks, they will build it".
Shell doesn't invest in oil extraction technology for laughs and giggles.
The party is over. 25 years of pain are ahead and that assumes construction of coal to liquid begins now on a massive scale.
Yes we do know your opinion.
Unless you’ve been lying here.
Nonsense. Imagine whatever you want. You cannot know another's opinion.
You haven't been posting facts on this thread, so what the hell is that stuff coming off your keyboard?
So now you are a prophet who knows the future????
If we do what you say the future will be as dire as you say.
Naysayers get their fifteen minutes of fame then disappear.
You cannot know what I think from what I say.
—Idi Amin
I’m not imagining anything.
You are stating your opinion for all to read.
Shell's "in situ" process is drilling. Not mining.
Only what I was taught to see in engineering school. Steel, oil, gravel, union contracts, budgets, etc.
Is he your mentor?
No wonder you are such a doom and gloomer.
What happened to your teacher Idi Amin and waht did he achieve with his philosophy?
I imagine that is your opinion. It might be or it might not.
Idi Amin is dead. But, he said that before he died. Whether that was his thinking we cannot know.
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