Reply #24: you're right but it is very sad

[amazona]

It will be the death of the western U.S. and Canada if we are reduced to processing huge areas of landscape just to produce the very little oil per acre that can be produced from the shale.

With any luck it will never be cost productive because it will kill our atmosphere, our climate, our frontier heritage, and, ultimately, it will give humans only a few more decades before the earth is too dirty for people to breathe.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72