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GOP, Big Oil push shale in Utah

Uh, bad idea. We're gonna trash our beautiful state just to have thirty years of dirty burning fuels. Then what?

We need to do everything in our power to get at the oil in oil shale, tar sands, coal gasification, off shore, ANWR and anywhere else we can get energy. (Also nuclear.) Our lives and security depend on it. What are we--SUICIDAL?

The Democrats, who are controlled by the environmentalists, are so blinded by their bias that they can't even use common sense.

We need oil shale and tar sands production NOW!

Then we drill off of the coasts and up in Alaska.

I can't believe the short sidedness of the left.

Um, duh, the Nine Mile Canyon region doesn't have oil shale. Utah's shale deposits are out near Vernal not down by Price. The reporter should pretend to know what he's writing about.

We still have some of the best scientific minds in the world (thus technologies) and I have faith that we can overcome the obstacles of exploitation of our resources and disposal of any hazardous waste byproducts. We have to take the lead and develop, BUT we must ensure there is true, non-partisan oversight and enforcement. True, many of the benefits may be years away, but we must set the stage for our children's future and country's future independence.

To "Quick Sand | 1:47 a.m." what this would bring us is time to develop alternatives. I just read an article that Sandia Labs put out that they are ready to test a process that would use the excess heat from a power plant and the CO2 to make gasoline.

There are alternatives, we just have to decide on which one.

To coin a phrase from environmentalists, "Do it for our Children". This fear mongering mentality of, "it will destroy the environment or burning fuel is evil" is just propaganda. Drilling for oil or developing oil shale or tar sands is not evil. It should have been done years ago. I for one do not want to return to the days of horse drawn wagons and no air conditioning. We have the technology to do this in an environmentally safe and responsible way. Government, do something and do it now so our children can benefit.

From the State of the Union address in January 2006, from President Bush:
"We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil."
And now, more recently, he says:
"Our nation must produce more oil."
So to get rid of an addiction, you feed it.
Makes perfect sense to me!

Yea, great idea! Let's just continue to tap whatever oil resources are available at all costs, acting like $2/gallon gas is our God given right. Heaven forbid we should actually focus on conservation and alternative energies. There is an UNLIMITED supply of energy in the World, let's stop taking the easy way out and find better ways to capture it. The longer we go after every last drop of oil, the less incentive we will have to develop the technologies and infrastructure for other, cleaner, and in the long run, cheaper forms of energy. Some Utahns need to learn what it means to be a "wise steward."

How many more years will be wasted on trying to squeeze oil from rock. Money would be better spent on finding a solutions that doesn't require oil for combustion. It is way past time to eliminate the stranglehold the oil producing countries and the U.S. Oil companies have on us.

Wow we see the liberal agenda in action here. There is no real concern for the hurt felt in our wallets over the outrageous oil prices, but concern over FRAGILE ROCK ART? I'm a poor person and I can not afford to continue to pay these oil prices. I try to keep my tires inflated properly, drive slow, and drive less. I am doing what I can, but I can't afford to be a heartless liberal that is concerned more over fragile rock art rather than the suffering consumers. Many of us are on the brink of losing our homes because we can not afford any thing anymore. Every little thing starts adding up. Lets see Questar is going to increase rates about 22% this winter, property taxes are up, food costs more, electrcity prices will go up very soon etc. So my income isn't going up as fast as all these increasing costs. in short WE ARE SUFFERING! maybe if we were all rich or without children we could afford to be a heartless liberal like those concerned with Fragile Art work.

Folks are missing the point. Nobody finds it ironic that our intrepid senators put on a dog and pony show touting a currently useless concept in order to calm the sheep? We continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a month in a country where gas is 1.25$/gal for the locals. Look at the current housing/energy/credit as well as our standing in the world and see what their stewardship has brought us. I'm sure our senators have already received a nice campaign check from said oil companies they held hands with.

Since you are so against the democrat agenda, let me ask this of those of you opposed to Government interaction. What about all of the landowners in Eastern Utah who will not have a say if someone drills on their property. This isn't just a public land issue, there are large amounts of shale on private land that the land owners won't have a say in how it's used because of split-estate leases. Really, get your info. correct before you just blame the left--it's not about that--it's about oil companies wanting the power without regulation.

with the guilt ridden left. But only when it comes to environmental issues.
'I feel so bad that we are using the earths resources. We should just leave them where their at, in the ground'. New flash, The earth is here for man to use. The earth should not be worshiped like its God.

when is Congress going to get serious about the monopoly and price fixing (both highly illegal) that are going on in the oil industry?
And make no mistake, you can thank American oil companies for the price at the pump. These greedy
monopolies are filling their pockets with your hard-earned dollars.
Ever since the invention of the internal combustion engine, there have been inventions of less oil- dependent fuels and higher efficiency models of cars, which have been bought out by these same American oil companies and car manufacturers, for the express purpose of blocking their development and use in the general market.
Now big oil wants to grind beautiful Utah into dust.
Do you think you're going to pay less for fuel because it comes from Utah? Think again.
There are so many ways to get around the use of oil!
There are new alternatives every day!
It isn't the so-called liberals who are causing the problem. You can look to American oil companies and their astronomical obscene profit taking if you want the cause of prices of everything going up.
They should be taking some if not most of that profit to develop alternatives to oil.

I have asked this question before with no response. I want a liberal or a Democrat to tell me at what point you will say drill now, drill here.

Is it 10 dollars per gallon when you can no longer afford to go to the grocery store and when you pay 5 bucks for 6 m&m's in a bag or $20 bucks for a half gallon of ice cream. And those ugly deserts are no longer looked at because no one can aford to visit the barron desert that no one uses anyways.

What is your breaking point? I read an article that estimates that 67% believe we should start drilling in ANWR and off the coast NOW.

If you say that we should not drill at any cost and that THEY should find alternatives. Let me ask you who THEY are. It is not the government. The private sector always comes up with the ideas and then the government jumps on it. Democrats and liberals always think the government has all the answers. I like Obamas last idea. Lets change the presidential seal. WOW. What an idea.

You want to conserve and get away from fossil fuels, fine, buy a horse and a cart and leave the rest of us alone. You're living in a dream world if you think there is something in the foreseeable future that is better than oil. If it existed, �greedy corporations� would already be selling it. Why is this issue all or nothing? Why can�t we drill and develop domestically as well as invest in alternatives? To Bombadil: I don�t find it ironic our Senators did this show. I, as well as thousands of other Utahans, have been hounding them relentlessly about this issue. Unlike some Republicans, these two are listening to their constituents and trying something. A check from big oil is no different than Pelosi getting checks from the various environmental lobbyists out there. If it's legal, I could care less, they're just playing the game we've allowed to develop.

Are you saying man is not capable of polluting the earth just because it's here for man to use?. You should see my neighbors back yard. It's his to use and it's a pig stye. Man can do the same thing with the earh. We are on the very brink of technology to make oil almost obsolete. Why are we resisting to push forward with it. Electric cars could be in every drive way if we really wanted.

"Big Oil" is intoxicated with raping the consumer. Developing new product gives them greater staying power.

When will Congress say "enough?" Regulatory measures could foster greater competition among the companies.

It puzzles me that gas prices rise within pennies of each other among the various suppliers. Why can't one brand break ranks and govern itself independently of other companies?

I love the "liberal" word thrown around like it was a curse word. I wouldn't be too proud calling yourself conservative...after all you are the bunch of noodle heads that elected this no-brain or heart having administration. Alternate energy is the only way out of this spiraling inversion. Our environment should be a top concern but it isn't, education should be right up htere with health-care but it isn't, we seem to only care about oil and celebrities...Americans are lazy, that is it in a nut-shell. We refuse to walk, bicycle or take any pro-active stand. We want to whine and complain because that is America. We care more about fashion than life. Get real, liberal or conservative we are all people and we all have to breath, drink and eat the very things we are polluting at an astronomical rate. Pull your head out of the sand/shale; oil companies will not give up on screwing every American they can, once our country falls, and it will fall, the rest of us will flail in our death throws while big oil feasts on our flesh.