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"There's enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years,"
Why the moratorium to oil shale development...We have the technology to extract oil from shale without harming the enviroment...The high cost of energy is so unnecessary...
"There's enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years,"
Why the moratorium to oil shale development...We have the technology to extract oil from shale without harming the enviroment...The high cost of energy is so unnecessary...
"With a demonstrated reserve base of 120 billion tons, Montana's coal is, in liquid terms, over one quarter the size of the entire Middle East oil reserve--enough fuel to power every American car for decades. In Montana and across the West, if even a fraction of our reserves were developed and converted to liquid fuel, we could greatly reduce the oil we now import from unfriendly and unstable countries. Or, if we moved toward a gasification program for generating electric power with IGCC plants, we could substantially reduce emissions from the utility industry."
"There's enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years,"
Why the moratorium to oil shale development...We have the technology to extract oil from shale without harming the enviroment...The high cost of energy is so unnecessary...
Oil shale is expensive and polluting. There's no government moratorium of extracting oil shale. It's not done because it's uneconomic.
Just when it appeared that we could celebrate Congress lifting the ban on oil shale, Senator Reid “has decided to sneak an extension of the oil shale ban through as Congress fights over the financial bailout.”
I think alternative energy, efficiency and conservation are all the way to go.
I think most people in the United States will have a problem with conservation.
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Alternative energy alone won't meet US needs
