Within 10 years, given the genius of the Free Market and US ingenuity, I bet we could have the shale oil being extracted for a lot less than it costs now.
Iran doesn't realize two things:
1) Have one nuke, or a dozen, with unreliable delivery systems, cannot enable you to take on a country with thousands.
2) The US remains the only power in history to have nuked civilians on purpose. These clowns are rank amateurs.
Full Disclosure: First I'd carpet bomb Mecca during Ramadan with live pigs and Hormel Cure-81 canned hams.
Cheers!
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Saudi Arabia has weighed in on this, firmly on our side.
We can glass Tehran, all of iran, Syria to boot, but 1.6 billion Muslims is a tall order.
I prefer to concentrate on the most agressive ones, and let the seemingly friendly ones alone for the time being.
Still, premature.
Wait and watch.
Within 10 years, given the genius of the Free Market and US ingenuity, I bet we could have the shale oil being extracted for a lot less than it costs now.
A few items:
Israel Presses for Oil from Shale
No More Blood For Oil Or Let The Persian Gulf Swing Slowly IN The BreezeJust got this in an email from IRIS Blog * Israel Presses for Oil From Shale * With oil prices hovering around $70 a barrel, Israel is pondering the use of its huge reserves of oil shale. Thanks to a technical breakthrough, it should be possible to extract fuel oil from shale for less than $20 a barrel, which could allow Israel eventually to cut its crude oil imports by up to one-third.
Harper touts Canada as 'energy superpower' in pre-G8 speech to business crowd
Also, a month or so ago, Neil Boortz read a RAND Corp. paper which claimed we have enough oil in shale, in Utah alone, to supply us with a hundred years of oil using current technology.
Once we started, you know the tech would improve.