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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-11 08:00 PM
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15. Why didn't that work first time around?
I don't get why it didn't catch on so I don't know how to fix it, but something bogged it down. Was it mismanagement? I have no idea.
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  -Billions of barrels of untapped U.S. oil dkf  Sep-19-11 07:23 PM   #0 
  - We consume 20M barrels a day.  jpgray   Sep-19-11 07:27 PM   #1 
  - We have about 1.4-2.6 TRILLION barrels of oil shale in the United States.  joshcryer   Sep-19-11 08:11 PM   #22 
  - Don't believe it. Leave that oil alone, what little there is.  NYC_SKP   Sep-19-11 07:28 PM   #2 
  - If it isn't there, then where is it coming from?  Zax2me   Sep-19-11 08:48 PM   #29 
     - Shale Oil isn't like conventional oil.  NYC_SKP   Sep-19-11 09:55 PM   #33 
        - Most of it sits under BLM / public land.  joshcryer   Sep-19-11 11:29 PM   #35 
  - I am always surprised to see you posting ....  Trajan   Sep-19-11 07:30 PM   #3 
  - I'm always looking for workable solutions.  dkf   Sep-19-11 07:32 PM   #4 
     - How long will this one work?  jpgray   Sep-19-11 07:36 PM   #8 
        - My idea would be to provide loans for the infrastructure build out.  dkf   Sep-19-11 07:58 PM   #14 
  - Who needs all that oil if they are dead.  DURHAM D   Sep-19-11 07:33 PM   #5 
  - That's total bullshit  bbinacan   Sep-19-11 08:10 PM   #21 
     - Just keep whistling past the graveyard.  DURHAM D   Sep-19-11 08:14 PM   #24 
     - You work in the field? What do you do? nt  Arctic Dave   Sep-19-11 08:38 PM   #25 
     - I bet you stock bottled water, too...  Earth_First   Sep-19-11 08:41 PM   #27 
        - I drink the water  bbinacan   Sep-20-11 06:24 PM   #37 
  - What's the extraction costs?  Old and In the Way   Sep-19-11 07:35 PM   #6 
  - Why didn't that work first time around?  dkf   Sep-19-11 08:00 PM   #15 
  - Even if this was a good thing  Ineeda   Sep-19-11 07:36 PM   #7 
  - Just like the Alaska North Slope. They got the regs changed so they could sell it to Japan  SharonAnn   Sep-19-11 11:34 PM   #36 
  - Can you say fracking?  liberal N proud   Sep-19-11 07:37 PM   #9 
  - DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!!111  Lucian   Sep-19-11 07:39 PM   #10 
  - Shale oil is a disaster, every time they try to make it work  bhikkhu   Sep-19-11 07:40 PM   #11 
  - IHS CERA is a Oil Industry tool.  Scruffy1   Sep-19-11 07:56 PM   #12 
  - Debt. Desparation."Yay, shale!" Translation: Give us money . . . . and water.  patrice   Sep-19-11 07:57 PM   #13 
  - When you cite desperation...you are so right.  dkf   Sep-19-11 08:03 PM   #17 
     - Yeah, nothing like screwing us some more with this oil-shale bullshit. nt  patrice   Sep-19-11 08:56 PM   #32 
  - Snopes has been monitoring the Bakken Formation for somet time.  Sal Minella   Sep-19-11 08:02 PM   #16 
  - Billions and billions  H2O Man   Sep-19-11 08:03 PM   #18 
  - Could this be corporate propaganda?! Who would do such a thing?!  FarLeftFist   Sep-19-11 08:03 PM   #19 
  - Two points...  markpkessinger   Sep-19-11 08:09 PM   #20 
  - Bogus even if true- it's not OUR oil... it belongs to the international oil conglomerates.  stlsaxman   Sep-19-11 08:12 PM   #23 
  - BLM leases take about 5% of the profits from the oil companies.  joshcryer   Sep-19-11 08:48 PM   #30 
  - LOL. Now it's 2 million BPD and 100,000 people.  Arctic Dave   Sep-19-11 08:40 PM   #26 
  - There is no such thing as "US" oil. It goes on the global market. (edited)  Cerridwen   Sep-19-11 08:44 PM   #28 
  - There is only one reason for these reports being published at regular intervals...  Speck Tater   Sep-19-11 08:54 PM   #31 
  - Yay, 'cause who cares if we have clean water, as long as Big Oil keeps having record profits...  DCKit   Sep-19-11 11:28 PM   #34 
 

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