haha prepare to get pw3d
plus if you would be so kind as to show me a source for your claim of "I hope you realize that's only enough oil to supply the united states for six weeks."
id really appreciate some credibility (source) to that claim, thanks..
also i never said ANWAR
Colorado and Utah have as much oil as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq,
Venezuela, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, Qatar
and the United Arab Emirates combined.
That's not science fiction. Trapped in limestone up to 200 feet thick
in the two Rocky Mountain states is enough so-called shale oil to rival
OPEC and supply the U.S. for a century.
Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., the two biggest U.S. energy
companies, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are spending $100 million a year
testing new methods to separate the oil from the stone for as little as
$30 a barrel. A growing number of industry executives and analysts say
new technology and persistently high prices make the idea feasible.
"The breakthrough is that now the oil companies have a way of getting
this oil out of the ground without the massive energy and manpower
costs that killed these projects in the 1970s," said Pete Stark, an
analyst at IHS Inc., an Englewood, Colo., research firm. "All the shale
rocks in the world are going to be revisited now to see how much oil
they contain."
The U.S. imports two-thirds of its oil, spending $300 billion a year,
or 40 percent of the record trade deficit. Every $10 increase in a
barrel of crude costs an American household $700 a year, according to
the Rand Corp., founded in 1946 to provide research for the U.S.
military. Oil prices have risen 63 percent since 2004, and higher fuel
costs have slowed growth in the world's largest economy to the lowest
in four years.
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660227927,00.html
