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Bush eyes Utah oil shale

I am sorry I must say that I don't agree. With her $2.58 she could have ridden the bus, and I am certain that she could have bought a monthly pass with the money you gave her to fill up her car.

Drive, drive, drive, consume, consume, consume, want, want, want...

The environmentalists that all of you speak about are simply telling you to stop eating the land, which is precisely what you are doing- and it is absolutely unncessary, ride a bike.

SUV's and 5,000 square foot houses... wah, wah, wah.

All you who have read the about Shell doing their super brew, please try to understand the problem.

How do you think they Generate the Heat? It takes electricity, How do they get the amount of Electricity needed? COAL PLANTS! The simple answer would be to build a Nuclear Plant out in the area!

Watch what happens when you mention Nuclear, all of a sudden there are multiple protest, spin and lies.

Sadly France has beat us on this one, 80% of their energy comes from Nuc's.

Now is the time for the U.S. to demonstrate the genius that resulted in great leaps of productivity and creativity in the past. Unfortunately, our president has poisoned even good ideas with his history of stubborn support for special business interests and misguided efforts that were never allowed to be debated in the Oval Office.

What can we do now, though? Approach energy in a bipartisan manner and use a systems methodology to evaluate the LATEST and MOST ADVANCED concepts for obtaining oil from oil shale. There is a lot of dis-information out there that ignores many of the recent exciting efforts that demonstrat cost effective production without using water or toxic byproducts.

We then need to rationally review the real consequences for our environment and discard the many archaic requirements that make it very very difficult to apply common sense. We need visibility of the pros and cons for all Americans so that the majority and not just a highly vocal minority can help make the decision on just how important it is to move forward on oil shale. This is a vital step that needs to be taken now to maintain America's strength and opportunity.

Wind and Solar should be connected to shale to help drive its extraction and upgrading. America and the world will continue to drive combustion engines. This means we need liquid fuels connected to greener technologies. I've read about a company known as "Red Leaf" which has the "EcoShale" technology. If this technology proves out over the next few months -- Utah is easily the first to market in oil shale. This technology produces very high quality shale oil which makes it more economical than older retort technologies. It also uses no water and reduces old retort emissions by 2/3rds. If this proves correct, the DISPLACEMENT OF FUTURE EMISSIONS from retorting hydrocarbons around the world in countries such as China is reason enough to support EcoShale technology. China currently has 140 Fushun retorts for oil shale that spew massive emissions. As an environmentalist, I support these new technologies that displace future emissions as well. We need a best available technology for retorting hydrocarbons from shale, tar sands and coal that doesn't use water. Hopefully, EcoShale can do what their website suggests. While electric vehicles is the distant future, we need green tech for our current liquid fuel crises.