America’s Untapped Oil

For those that mentioned the hydrogen hoax, see:
http://recoverybydiscovery.com/hydrogen.htm

T Boone Picken is misleading us. Now he wants to run trucks on natural gas. That would take heaver gas tanks that be 3 times the size and cost a fortune to convert the trucks or buy new ones and not solve the carbon footprint problem. See:
http://www.recoverybydiscovery.com/PickensPlan.htm

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/storyTools/print_archive_story.htm?storyID=86305 where it takes too much water and it is smarter to plant jatropha in the land unsuitable for food.

Im tired of the environmentalists complaining about oil production. The environmentalists can NOT solve any energy problem, they only complain, what good are they and why do we care about what they have to say?

The answer is NOT MORE WAS TO GET OIL.
The answer is getting Americans off our dependency for oil altogether.
Of course, big business (like Exxon, BP, et al and Detroit) don't want that. It would cost them billions to retool their businesses.
We dropped the ball after the first OPEC mess back in the Carter Administration and looks like we're headed for a repeat performance of shallow attempts at alternative energy and transportation sources until OPEC and big oil drop their prices again.
Then, we'll be right back to buying Hummers and monster trucks.
When will we ever learn that we must make consistent efforts to ween ourselves from this oil habit.

Oil is high because there is no reserve capacity to address the risk of supply disruptions and of course the weakest dollar in recent memory. The Bush administration???s aggressive foreign policy towards the Middle East, especially Iran, is dearly factored into oil futures prices. As for oil shale, extraction takes immense volumes of water, a rare commodity in the arid region encompassing the deposits. The best path would be electric vehicles, to remove the daily commute from our oil diet, and save oil for the industries (aviation, trucking, and so on) having fewer alternatives.

Oil is high because there is no reserve capacity to address the risk of supply disruptions and of course the weakest dollar in recent memory. The Bush administration???s aggressive foreign policy towards the Middle East, especially Iran, is dearly factored into oil futures prices. As for oil shale, extraction takes immense volumes of water, a rare commodity in the arid region encompassing the deposits. The best path would be electric vehicles, to remove the daily commute from our oil diet, and save oil for the industries (aviation, trucking, and so on) having fewer alternatives.

Some of my ancestors were the ones that used to rich oil shale in the homes, none of them built the fireplace out of the stuff. I am a native of Colorado and my family has been here since 1879. We were here during the booms and busts and we will be here for what ever comes next. There is no doubt that getting the oil out of rock is difficult but I feel that we must, where there is a will there is a way.The "can do" attitude that earlier Americans had, has been watered down to a list of excuses and whining special interest groups. Please America, get your heads out of your a-- and "get it done"

The fact or myth that we always understood was that North America has huge supplies of natural gas and oil. (The partisan politics is killing us - so the media is against anything the president offers. instead they look into the mouth of Gore - the guy who must stop eating to save the world). The Perisan Gulf oil was cheap oil, because the workers were cheap to get (from the neighbouring countries). Yes the Cheap Oil has ended. Now Americans should find the courage to get our own oil (O yes no body here wants to work for low wages!! even school drop outs) May be you guys should get some Mexicans to do the job so you can keep driving the SUVs. Stop whining and get on the job like the great country this used to be. Work on your dream of the next "fuel", but try to live for today.

The problem with the high oil prices is becuase of the weak dollar and oil speculation. This is what happens when the energy market has been deregulated (thanks to Dr. Phil and Enron). So you don't believe much of the prices is due to oil speculation? How do you explan that oil consumption world wide is done by 1% this time last year, but prices have doubled?

The subprime market has crashed. The Chinese and Saudis don't want our money. They are stuffing them into Oil. Goldman Sachs had hedge that oil will be $200 per barrel. Shades of Enron going on? Guess there going to rip off granny Mildred again and all American can say is to argue whether Obama is a Muslin.

America WAKE UP! or bow down your Asian/Saudis Master.

Did any of you read the article you are commenting on? "The company's idea is to heat oil shale underground to temperatures of about 700 degrees for three years or longer. In turn, the oil oozes out of the rock and can then be extracted. To avoid contaminating underground water, areas surrounding the heated rock are frozen to create "freeze walls", theoretically preventing the oil from migrating." It costs more money to get the oil than you could ever make by selling the oil. It requires more energy to get the oil than the oil extracted can produce. And it requires water that doesn't exist where the shale is found. Even if all that weren't true, it would take a dozen years or more to even get started. This idea has been raised and de-bunked repeatedly in the last hundred years. Moving on.

Congress has had an "anti-energy" position for years. They continue standing in the way on nuclear, coal, offshore, ANWR, wind, and solar. But they blame the oil companies for excess profits while the government makes more in royalties and taxes on gasoline and diesel than the oil companies make in profit.

This article is great!! If we can supply our own oil we would not have to buy oil over sees anymore!! Why should we keep making the saudis richer!!

Can ANYONE tell me why oil companies would willingly overproduce oil to drive down the prices when they are making record profits?

Great! We lost the king of beers to foreigners and now we lose the black gold to RDS.
But I'll remain optimistic that American citizens will strike "Browns Gas" very soon.

Fact checking by the reporter on this article is needed. 800B barrels of oil equates to roughly 100 years of US oil consumption (at 2005 rates of consumption of 21.9M barrels per day), not 400 years. Given our rate of increase of consumption (roughly 2% per year), this figure is closer to 65 years.

Do you think that Bush, the OIL MAN and Saudi BFF, blaming the Dems in Congress will piss-off Nancy Pelosi enough to put impeachment back on the table? This has to be Bush's most Ballsy move yet - By going on video (permantent record) and blaming the Dems for high gas prices and essentially the bad economy, he takes care of his presidential legacy rather than taking responsibility for his conspiracy with his family/friends and the Saudis for price gouging. The little DICK-tater is brilliant. This video will be played on a loop in the GW Bush presidential library in the year 2050 when all of us are gone and there won't be anyone around to tell the truth about what really happened. Unless the Dems in congress fight back with impeachment, the DEM party will disappear and go down in history as a bunch of idiots.

America's Untapped Oil........Is America's Untapped intelligence.

Is America's untapped ability to move on from 1910, into the future with renewable energy sources.

Oil WILL run out far before the Sun does.

Why not talk about the fact that we are sitting in our cars on top of technology that hasn't changed much in about a century?

LETS TALK ABOUT THE LACK OF PROGRESS.

Hey Ford, GMC, etc! Make a good car and you will have a good business.

Obama is right???..the car industry workers suffer because of cursory and sometimes corrupt management teams of these corporations. The collusion of the oil and car industries leads directly to the loss of jobs in the United States.

Questions:
1. Why in a hundred+ years can we not get away from the internal combustion engine? Is it because companies like Ford don't want to? hmmm..

2. Why do we put AIR in our tires? I think the answer is the same as the first question. The tire industry doesn???t want to make THAT good a tire???..

3. Where are our scientists? Why in the most modern country in the world we can't come up with something better is profound to me, and don't bring the fuel cell in to this either because that's 1800's technology too.

Someone "needs" YOU and ME to be high on money and low on cash. It's time to get green with our energy policy.

Democrats win my vote in 08...???..there is no debate???.

"Untapped Wind or Untapped Sun - in reality untapped ignorance."

Enough of your OBFUSCATIONS!
I'm in the Solar Energy reality. It's what I do for a living.

Nay saying tools such as you are to partly to blame for America having fallen behind the rest of the world on these renewable types of energy.

Here's a great question for yall pessimists: Why do we put AIR in our TIRES still? Is it because we can't make a tire that won't leak?

Don't be fooled.....wind power and solar power alone can provide enough to power the entire United States.

TONS of jobs can be created building and assembling wind turbines right here in the states.
Tons of jobs can be kept at the car companies, if they were to build cars that give the buyers options about what kind of energy the car will use.

Can AMERICANS make the better solar panel?
Can AMERICANS make the wind turbines?
Can AMERICANS make the better electric car?

YES WE CAN!

Our Sun puts out 1000 watts per square meter!!
Sanyo makes solar panels right now that can collect 20% of that.
It's only going to get better.

Oil is old....just like the people protecting it.