[detective]

The lead time to develop big oil shale projects is several years. The initial work is being started. This is a remote area and pipeline transportation systems also need to be built. There is also plenty of oil and natural gas available offshore that the government does not allow to be drilled.

[thackney]

Also, most of the Green River Formation is on BLM land. They have only recently allowed very small pilot projects to be considered. The EIS was just done earlier this year.

[Red_Devil 232]

Yes I agree on the lead time. I worked in the oil and gas exploration industry for over 20 years (seismic). This oil shale reservoir has been known and mapped since the mid 80’s (could be earlier) but when oil was less than $10-$20 bbl it was nothing but an interesting area to a Geologist and and the Oil Companies.

When someone finally gets it in D.C. and they pass legislation that approves the immediate construction of small electrical Nuke Plants all over the U.S. and allows extraction of our own oil reserves, then and only then will the Mid East countries realize they have lost.