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ORIGINAL: iluvatar

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ORIGINAL: SavedByGraceMD

"But the mother lode is in shale rock. It's estimated that the Saudis have about 260 billion barrels under their sand. By comparison, with current technology, we can safely recover more than 800 billion barrels of the estimated 7 trillion barrels of oil in the shale rock from the Rocky Mountains. That means that current technology could give us more than three times the entire national resources of oil-rich Saudi Arabia.

Extracting oil from shale rock only recently has become economically feasible. It costs about $70 per barrel to extract and make the oil usable. When oil was $18 a barrel that would have been crazy. But at $138 a barrel, it's a bargain. And American companies can make money by supplying our nation's need, and lowering costs for all of us in the process." (source Ken Blackwell is member of NTU's Board of Directors)

link http://www.ntu.org/main/press.php?PressID=1028&org_name=NTU

that is just 3, all of which I got links to from townhall.com

What they don't mention is that oil shale is usually harvested via strip-mining and that with all the energy needed to bake the rocks once they're out of the ground, it's not a particularly efficient means of acquiring energy.

Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars to explore and develop new oil fields that will take a decade or more to come on line and only postpone the inevitable, when we could divert those resources into developing new technologies that are cleaner than oil and renewable?

-Dan.

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ORIGINAL: SavedByGraceMD
Name one that is ready now that will provide us with enough energy to get off of oil, and solve the fuel cost issues, not energy issues(stick to the OP).