[RightWhale]

Produce it. It won’t make a dent in the supply problem but it won’t hurt that aspect.

[smoketree]

So how is it that 800 billion barrels won’t make a dent in the supply of oil?
As technology advances it gets cheaper to extract the oil.
The more money we spend in our own country the more we have.
How is that a bad thing?

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Produce it. It won’t make a dent in the supply problem but it won’t hurt that aspect.

800 billion barrels of recoverable oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming alone - it could eventually rival the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

That's a pretty big dent.

[djsherin]

How won’t it make a dent? I’m curious to see your reasoning? Is there something we don’t understand about this issue?