Posted on 05/11/2012 4:09:24 PM PDT by jazusamo
Potomac-speak for: "why should the local guys get all the payolla?"
——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-—
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.
I thought proven reserves had peaked. Who knew?
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.
—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)
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...
We’ll never get any of this oil as long as O’failure is in the White House.
Thanks for your post, I was unaware of that.
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.
“—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.
“—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.
“—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.
They don’t want any Ellis Wyatts popping up just when they’ve got most major American corporations co-opted as arms of government.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Sorry for the triple post. My sorry Internet connection got me again.:-(
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.
I believe they have some water table issues that complicate things. The water and shale oil are at the same depths.
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