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GAO: Recoverable Oil in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming 'About Equal to Entire World’s Proven Reserves'
CNSNews ^ | May 11, 2012 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 05/11/2012 4:09:24 PM PDT by jazusamo

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If Obama and his thug cabinet chairmen stay in office the oil will stay in the ground.
1 posted on 05/11/2012 4:09:29 PM PDT by jazusamo
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making planning for growth difficult for local governments.

Potomac-speak for: "why should the local guys get all the payolla?"

2 posted on 05/11/2012 4:18:51 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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——couple of problems with the “shale” oil-—there isn’t much of it per ton of material and it is VERY well dispersed in the rock also-—


3 posted on 05/11/2012 4:20:34 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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With so many of his commies already in-place in the criminal, criminal EPA, Commerce, DOT and other corrupt Federal/State Agencies, permits for Federal Land exploration/drilling and new refineries will be delayed/denied for the next 20-50yrs.

If he gets another 4yrs, America - as we know it - is gone.


4 posted on 05/11/2012 4:22:21 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (((.)))
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I thought proven reserves had peaked. Who knew?


5 posted on 05/11/2012 4:23:54 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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The article uses the terms “oil shale” and “shale oil” interchangeably. They are to different things. The Green River Formation contains oil shale that is not oil, but a substance called kerogen that can be converted to oil, but using current technolgy is very expensive and energy input intensive. Articles that imply that oil shale is equivalent to the shale oil that is being found in North Dakota are misleading.


6 posted on 05/11/2012 4:24:22 PM PDT by Okieshooter
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—thanks—good to see somebody else on one of these threads who knows what he is talking about-—( I was in on many an “oil shale” feasibility study thirty years ago during the last go-around)


7 posted on 05/11/2012 4:32:27 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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Thats exactly WHY the Keystone pipeline was killed..
The pipeline would go right by the oil sands and shale..

Can’t the rubes “Jonesing” for all that oil...
Only would have been a matter of time before they put 2x2 together..

If Romney didnt want to take a “dive” in this election..
He would shout this from the housetops..

Unfortunately like Juan McLame he wants to take a dive..
And will act like this DIDN’T HAPPEN...


8 posted on 05/11/2012 4:32:40 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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We’ll never get any of this oil as long as O’failure is in the White House.


9 posted on 05/11/2012 4:37:01 PM PDT by Signalman ( November, 2012-The End of an Error)
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Thanks for your post, I was unaware of that.


10 posted on 05/11/2012 4:37:46 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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11 posted on 05/11/2012 4:38:27 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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—couple of problems with the “shale” oil-—there isn’t much of it per ton of material and it is VERY well dispersed in the rock also-—

The simple way to get it out is heat, Fracking and time. $35 per barrel The Denver Post said. That is why the big deal is manufactured on fracking. Salizar never saw any oil he did not like.

12 posted on 05/11/2012 4:40:12 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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“—thanks—good to see somebody else on one of these threads who knows what he is talking about-—( I was in on many an “oil shale” feasibility study thirty years ago during the last go-around)”

Yes, it makes me crazy sometimes and the they throw the Canadian “oil sands” into the mix an it becomes vey confusing to the layman. I wish they would just call it what it is, kerogen. The typical journalist doesn’t have the intelligence to understand the difference if it is explained to them.


13 posted on 05/11/2012 4:41:08 PM PDT by Okieshooter
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“—thanks—good to see somebody else on one of these threads who knows what he is talking about-—( I was in on many an “oil shale” feasibility study thirty years ago during the last go-around)”

Yes, it makes me crazy sometimes and the they throw the Canadian “oil sands” into the mix an it becomes vey confusing to the layman. I wish they would just call it what it is, kerogen. The typical journalist doesn’t have the intelligence to understand the difference if it is explained to them.


14 posted on 05/11/2012 4:41:16 PM PDT by Okieshooter
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“—thanks—good to see somebody else on one of these threads who knows what he is talking about-—( I was in on many an “oil shale” feasibility study thirty years ago during the last go-around)”

Yes, it makes me crazy sometimes and the they throw the Canadian “oil sands” into the mix an it becomes vey confusing to the layman. I wish they would just call it what it is, kerogen. The typical journalist doesn’t have the intelligence to understand the difference if it is explained to them.


15 posted on 05/11/2012 4:41:18 PM PDT by Okieshooter
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They don’t want any Ellis Wyatts popping up just when they’ve got most major American corporations co-opted as arms of government.


16 posted on 05/11/2012 4:43:47 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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And it is all under federally owned property...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

17 posted on 05/11/2012 4:44:17 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Are you behind a "Blade of Grass?")
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Sorry for the triple post. My sorry Internet connection got me again.:-(


18 posted on 05/11/2012 4:44:55 PM PDT by Okieshooter
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Why not erect a thousand ugly windmills like they did in West Texas?

And to think that these very windmills may be the cause of climate change because of the effect that they have on nighttime temperatures caused by air turbulence at ground level.


19 posted on 05/11/2012 4:49:26 PM PDT by 353FMG
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I believe they have some water table issues that complicate things. The water and shale oil are at the same depths.


20 posted on 05/11/2012 5:01:39 PM PDT by Recon Dad (Gas & Petroleum Junkie)
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