furie
07-01-2008, 02:37 PM
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/30/eveningnews/main4221747.shtml
(CBS) The desolate beauty of Northwest Colorado is breathtaking. But it's the area's potential to help quench America's thirst for oil that can really make you gasp.
And you can just see the shale in the mountains, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports.
“Oh yes, that dark line there,” said Glenn Vawter, executive director of the National Oil Shale Association, said.
That dark line is oil shale. Heat it and out seeps black gold.
Geologists estimate the rocks hold over a trillion barrels of oil.
“That is more than all the reserves of the Middle East,” Vawter said.
But this mother-load is locked deep inside deposits across three states.
"Oh gosh, if you took just an acre, you are probably looking at 100,000 barrels of recoverable oil,” Vawter said.
more...
so rather than moving away from fossil fuels to claener alternative, we will now be burning the very earth itself.
(CBS) The desolate beauty of Northwest Colorado is breathtaking. But it's the area's potential to help quench America's thirst for oil that can really make you gasp.
And you can just see the shale in the mountains, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports.
“Oh yes, that dark line there,” said Glenn Vawter, executive director of the National Oil Shale Association, said.
That dark line is oil shale. Heat it and out seeps black gold.
Geologists estimate the rocks hold over a trillion barrels of oil.
“That is more than all the reserves of the Middle East,” Vawter said.
But this mother-load is locked deep inside deposits across three states.
"Oh gosh, if you took just an acre, you are probably looking at 100,000 barrels of recoverable oil,” Vawter said.
more...
so rather than moving away from fossil fuels to claener alternative, we will now be burning the very earth itself.