3-4 billion barrels is still not chump change.
In my layman’s opinion, if I were betting my money, I’d still wager that the current estimate is conservative.
And how about all of these pontificating heads spending time talking about Utah’s massive reserves of clean coal? Our coal fired plants are pretty clean now. We need more of them.
And how about GWB issuing an executive order canceling Clinton’s and opening Utah back up? Bush’s record as proactive pro-energy is pretty shabby.
The estimates usually are conservative.
We are the only country that is doing nothing to increase our independance on foreign energy.
I watched Glenn Beck a few weeks ago and he was saying pretty much the same thing.
Iran for instance is building 7 new oil refineries that will be online by 2012.
China has a brand new hydroelectric dam.
China is also starting up a new coal fired powerplant every week or two, and at one point last year it was every 3 days.
The europeans are building 40 new coal fired power plants, not to mention the new nuclear plants that are springing up.
Yet we are hamstrung by the environazi’s and their democrat lapdogs as well as the NIMBY’s.
All 8000 pages of the Yucca Mountain site application was submitted last month along with 100,000 pages of back up document, and a further 30 million pages of additional back up documents, it’s going to take 90 days for the NRC to decide if they want to review it, then at least 3 years for the government to “review” it, and if approved it’s going to take 4 to 7 years to construct all the while the environazi’s and NIMBY’s will be filing lawsuit after lawsuit to stop it.
Here is my six points to energy independance:
First order of business should be to pidgeon hole all the environut groups and start hamstinging their actions.
Second, reverse congressional restrictions and all of the executive orders signed by clinton pertaining to energy matters.
Third, fast track new refineries as well as expansion of existing ones.
Fourth, fast track drilling off the coasts, in ANWR, and other areas.
Fifth, fast track development of new coal to oil, and shale recovery technologies.
Sixth, fast track building new power generation facilities (wind, water, nuclear, gas, geo-thermal, and coal).