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China stakes claim to S. Texas oil, gas
San Antonio Express News ^ | 12 October 2010 | Monica Hatcher

Posted on 10/12/2010 4:09:34 AM PDT by Racehorse

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1 posted on 10/12/2010 4:09:38 AM PDT by Racehorse
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To: Racehorse

yep and the ruskies are buying our uranium mines.

makes you feel all warm and fuzzy don’t it?


2 posted on 10/12/2010 4:24:17 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: Racehorse

The Chinese have trillions of US Dollars they would love to convert at current values!

Sad fact: The Chinese are my new best friend!
They are the only ones who want to uphold the value of my pension!


3 posted on 10/12/2010 4:27:19 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Racehorse
It's not cost feasable to extract oil deposits from shale feilds.It's been tried here in Australia at a little place called Newnes in the 1920's but the company was always running at a loss and constant industrial action by the miners for better conditions forced the company to close in 1932.
If you are interested in the history then google Newnes NSW.

4 posted on 10/12/2010 4:27:44 AM PDT by cavador ("Self determination is not a malfunction"!(Harkness;Fallout 3 Rivet City 2077))
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To: Racehorse

Far out! Didn’t we used to go to war for this kind stuff man?


5 posted on 10/12/2010 4:54:53 AM PDT by poobear ("The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: cavador

Shell Insutu extraction process delivers high grade crude for less than $35 per barrel.


6 posted on 10/12/2010 4:58:44 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: cavador
Exxon did a pilot shale project near Rifle, Colorado in the 70s. They dug up and crushed the shale down to golf ball sized chunks and hit it with radiation to get the oil to come out.
In the process, the golf ball chunks became softball sized chunks. The disposal issue killed the project.
7 posted on 10/12/2010 5:05:41 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: cavador
“It's not cost feasable to extract oil deposits from shale feilds.”

Things that are not “cost effective” when oil is selling for $30 a barrel look different when they drive the price up to $300 a barrel. The broader scheme has to do with taking over U.S. resources at the same time the commies in the White House are shutting down U.S. energy production on every level. Couple that with China's cornering and control of rare earth minerals and huge military buildup, it's more than “reason for concern”, it's the first stage of economic and military takeover of our Nation.

8 posted on 10/12/2010 5:12:35 AM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: poobear
Far out! Didn’t we used to go to war for this kind stuff man?

We still are at war over this stuff.
The Global Oil Party is waging economic war against the American People.
They are downsizing and outsourcing our wealth creating industries, refusing to provide funding for our government, allowing our national infrastructure to crumble and decay, and obstructing the implementation of competitive, energy saving technologies.
9 posted on 10/12/2010 5:38:49 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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Drivel


10 posted on 10/12/2010 5:42:45 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The Chinese aren’t stupid. They know that all those $$ they hold could collapse in value, and then they’d have nothing. They want to buy hard assets that will keep their value no matter what happens in the market place. They have stopped buying our debt, in T-Bills, in huge quantities, Japan has moved into first place, now. They also know that the US isn’t a nation that will nationalize foreign investments like Chavez or Mugabe will. As I heard an economist once say, all those dollars have to come back home eventually................


11 posted on 10/12/2010 5:43:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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www.globalpetroleumclub.com ^ | 03-19-2010 | Staff

Canada has more energy in its “proven, recoverable” reserves of coal than it has in all of its oil, natural gas and oil sands combined: 10 billion tonnes. The world has 100 times more: one trillion tonnes. These reserves hold the energy equivalent of more than four trillion barrels of oil. They are scattered in 70 countries, mostly in relatively easy-to-mine locations and mostly in democratic countries.

The United States alone has 30 per cent of the world’s reserves, and scientists in Texas say they have found a way to convert coal into gasoline at a cost of less than $30 (U.S.) a barrel - with zero release of pollutants.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) announced last month that they have developed a clean way to turn the cheapest kind of coal - lignite, common in Texas - into synthetic crude. “We go from that [lignite coal] to this really nice liquid,” Brian Dennis, a member of the research team, said in describing the synthetic crude that can be refined into gasoline.


12 posted on 10/12/2010 5:44:43 AM PDT by Rannug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-qH02g4DLI)
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_oil_extraction

Shale oil extraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shell in situ conversion process (Shell ICP) uses electrical heating elements .... the cost of producing a barrel of shale oil at a hypothetical surface ... a profit when crude oil prices are higher than $30 per barrel ($190/m3), ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_oil_extraction - Cached - Similar


13 posted on 10/12/2010 5:45:14 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: Willie Green

“They are downsizing and outsourcing our wealth creating industries, refusing to provide funding for our government, allowing our national infrastructure to crumble and decay, and obstructing the implementation of competitive, energy saving technologies. “

You’re such a trip, you need your own travel agency.


14 posted on 10/12/2010 5:50:01 AM PDT by listenhillary (A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
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To: cavador

Estona has been doing it for decades.

Brazil and China have been producing petroleum from oil shale for many years as well.

We are held back by politics, not technology.


15 posted on 10/12/2010 5:52:37 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Racehorse

I for one welcome our new imperial overlords and will enjoy watching them treat the EPA and enviro-whackos as mere annoyances when they try to impede the rape of our resources

Sell them ANWR while we’re at it

sarc


16 posted on 10/12/2010 5:59:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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. Couple that with China's cornering and control of rare earth minerals

I believe that was a major reason why China wanted Unocal, that company owned Molycorp which is the only REM mining company operating in the U.S. Though the enemedia and our government said it was only about oil, clearly it was about China controling all of the REM production on the planet.

Given the continual pattern of sedition and treason of our enemedia and government I wonder what the true purpose of China's interest in this field really is.

17 posted on 10/12/2010 6:00:47 AM PDT by The Theophilus
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To: listenhillary
AMTRAK RailAgent
18 posted on 10/12/2010 6:02:05 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: vanilla swirl

I believe this sell-off of US mainland resources was what Madame Rodham was referring to early in 2009 when she reportedly agreed to allow the Chinese “eminent domain” in return for continuing to fund our debt

They will offload our resources onto their ships in the US ports they lease, and ship them home through the Panamaa Canal which they control


19 posted on 10/12/2010 6:02:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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To: Racehorse

I figured they would patrol the streets someday but I could not understand how they would get enough troops here.

Heck, they will pay us with the greenbacks we “gave” them and move tens of thousands of troops the old fashioned way


20 posted on 10/12/2010 6:06:32 AM PDT by winodog
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