Oil Shale – an economic alternative?

Abolutely is and this is a huge resource for the US, I expect they will have Oil independence within a decade. They reckon there is 3t recoverable barrels worldwide, 60pc of which is in the US.

Can even turn Coal into diesel, and the US is the Saudia Arabia of coal

Not to mention food = fuel (biodiesel/Ethanol), plenty of choice farmland in the West to grow fuel.

Only thing I wonder, is why arnt they doing it now ? All I can think is bleed the ME dry of Oil then they are toast ? Other option could be the US Gov didnt read any Peak Oil blogs :D

I think Shell has done alot of work in this field, they like heat the shale under ground to a certain temperature then pump it out, Just the right temperature makes a nice Sweet crude I understand :)

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