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We Are Swimming In Oil

Steve

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America has more fossil fuel resources than any other nation. Russia is second, Saudi Arabia is third. On Thursday, a representative of the Government Accountability Office testified before the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment that the Green River Formation alone–it is located at the intersection of the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, and mostly underlies federal lands–contains as much oil as the entire proven reserves of the rest of the world combined. America is uniquely blessed in its energy resources.

In a report issued several years ago, the RAND Corporation estimated that the Green River Formation alone could provide a quarter of this country’s current oil needs for 400 years!

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the price has recently recently seen a small increase, and remains over $4/gal.). This, despite the fact that the GAO has reported that there are over 3 Trillion barrels of known crude oil reserves in the Green River Formation. But don't expect to see it anytime soon. Remember, the Obama Administration,

Democrats tell us that drilling for new oil will not produce any results for ten years. They said same thing back in 2002, or ten years ago. What might that have done for America's foreign dependency if we had started to drill in ANWR back then? I'll tell you. We would have an additional 1.5 million barrels of oil a day going into the supply!

It was Barack Obama who said that energy prices would naturally skyrocket under his policies.

It may be the only time that Barack Obama has told the truth to the American people.

"Will Obama, in a possible second term, continue to block the development of the resources that can assure America’s economic supremacy for generations?"



all the more reason to vote for anyone but Obama
 

hypocritexposer

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of course you are, but the Dems. would rather save it until others have expended what they have.

Us Canadians should wait for you to build your own pipelines, instead of putting up the initial costs.

You want it, you pay for the transportation costs.
 
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hypocritexposer said:
of course you are, but the Dems. would rather save it until others have expended what they have.

Us Canadians should wait for you to build your own pipelines, instead of putting up the initial costs.

You want it, you pay for the transportation costs.

I thought Koch brothers were American citizens :???:
 

Cowpuncher

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the oil in the green river formation is most likely to stay where it is. It is in shale and the oil doesn't flow out of it. I think some was produced during WW II, but they had to crush the shale and cook it out.

My former employer owns a bunch of that land and they had a pilot project in the 1980s to find a way of getting the oil out. The plant cost 100 Million and made 100 barrels per day - a neglible amount. Worse, when the shale is cooked to release the oil, the rock expands to about 1 1/2 time is original volume.

The processed shale would have filled a large part of the Grand Canyon.

They also tried ways of getting the oil out without mining. They even detonated an atom bomb underground figuring it would make a huge cavern which would fill up with oil from the heat released. (Google the Rulison Project for more information)

Someone may discover a means of extracting the oil without destroying the entire area, but it is not imminent. Those working on this are not a bunch of retards, either.
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
hypocritexposer said:
of course you are, but the Dems. would rather save it until others have expended what they have.

Us Canadians should wait for you to build your own pipelines, instead of putting up the initial costs.

You want it, you pay for the transportation costs.

I thought Koch brothers were American citizens :???:

obviously you read and believe too many liberal talking points.
 

Steve

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Cowpuncher said:
the oil in the green river formation is most likely to stay where it is. It is in shale and the oil doesn't flow out of it. I think some was produced during WW II, but they had to crush the shale and cook it out.

Someone may discover a means of extracting the oil without destroying the entire area, but it is not imminent. Those working on this are not a bunch of retards, either.

there are several projects, but i am not sure how far along they are.. one holdup seems to be the process of getting access to run test projects..

TomCo envisions using an in situ heating process to develop their lease blocks. They plan to use what they call a new type of heating process called EcoShale In-Capsule technology. While the EcoShale process sounds similar to the in situ process long under development by Shell Oil, a major difference seems to be in the use of water. Shell’s process was said to utilize three barrels of water for every barrel of oil produced. The EcoShale process, on the other hand, claims to use no water. If so, this would of course be a tremendous development and would disarm one of the main points of attack against shale oil development. If successful, TomCo’s development would mark the beginning of The Second Age of Oil.

the EcoShale™ In-Capsule Technology to economically and environmentally produce high quality liquid transportation fuels from oil shale, oil sands, coal, lignite and bio-mass.


The EcoShale™ In-Capsule Technology involves heating mined shale in a closed surface impoundment, or capsule. The process relies on conventional mining and construction methods and produces a bottomless oil product that requires no coking. The process produces a shale oil with a much higher concentration of middle distillate than West Texas intermediate crude. Two synthetic shale oil products are produced: (1) prompt oil of approximately 29 API gravity; (2) condensate oil of approximately 39 API gravity. The oil and condensate produced with this process have no fines and have very low acid numbers.

The technology requires no process water, protects groundwater and vegetation, uses low temperatures for heating and allows for rapid site reclamation.

The resultant product is a high quality feedstock with an average 34 API and no fines. The process also results in synthetic natural gas production allowing for energy self-sufficiency.
http://redleafinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14:pilot-test&catid=12:results-demonstrated&Itemid=16

I am not sure how this works but a friend in western Pa coal country is working on a project.. and he seems pretty excited about it..
 

Steve

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They also tried ways of getting the oil out without mining. They even detonated an atom bomb underground figuring it would make a huge cavern which would fill up with oil from the heat released. (Google the Rulison Project for more information)

and some folk complain about fracking?... :shock:
 
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