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GOP bills aimed at oil-shale use

Get going on the oil-shale and give the Utah proceeds to our schools.

Two problems solved.

Even if the bill passed (wich the dems whoare running the country) will never allow, it will be meaningless unless the laws that empower evniro-wakos are changed.

What would Mr. Huntley propose to get our country to energy independence? I'm for being cautious regarding safe & clean ways of extracting energy resources. But all too often those that oppose drilling, mining, etc., have no alternatives to offer. As many of these environmental advocates are trained in the sciences, surely they can offer some other solutions.

The true believers in oil shale seem to think only enviros stand in the way when according to Shell its actually that the technology isn't ready for prime time yet.
I hope they invest their money with those apocryphal cowboy- inventors we hear so much about that single handedly have set up a still, have solved all the problems and are magically producing 4000 barrels a day. If you're right, then you'll be rich!

Huntley is an environmentalist and is wrong. Open up the shale for development and watch what happens. I fully expect that production of oil from the shale will start much sooner than we expect and way too soon for his outlook.

His name is Lamar Alexander, the senator from Tennessee. I wonder what other facts you've missed?

Anyone who expects "production of oil from the shale" is demonstrating their ignorance. The hydrocarbon in the shale is kerogen, not oil. It combines with oxygen to release energy (heat), all right, but it can't even be processed into regular gasoline (though perhaps into diesel). In order to exploit it, we will need to use vast amounts of water and energy.
The only winners in this game will be the energy corporations that engineer a pipeline from taxpayer's wallets (tax breaks, incentives).

Aldous, please research Shell Oil's 'in-siti' process, there is virtually NO water used in the process. Global Resources Corp, uses microwaves in a vacumm process (no water and no CO2 emmissions).

The only thing keeping us from going for it is the provision the Democratic Party controlled Congress 'backdoored' in the 2007 Omnibus Spending Bill (December 2007) - no oil shale provisions will be written for extraction on Federal Lands (truly a DemocRATic Party brainchild - when energy costs are skyrocketing).

If you are a Democrat, you need to look in the mirror and see who REALLY is responsible for high energy prices. 'Great?' leaders like: Patrick 'Leaky' Leahy, Harry 'the war is lost' Reid, John 'the Hadetha Marines were guilty before being tried' Murtha, and Dick 'Gitmo is like a Soviet Goulog' Durkin, oh and Barack 'HUSSEIN' Obama.

Any wonder our country is in a mess?