Environmentalists oppose oil shale
June 16, 2008
Are we surprised? Environmentalists are bereft of ideas… all they do is oppose those that do have them and want to improve our lives. It’s time to tell your representatives (Republican or Democrat) that we are fed up with overy burdensome environmental controls. That’s doesn’t mean we are against clean air and clean water. It just means sensible solutions should not be ignored just because environmentalists don’t approve of them.
Glenn Beck interviewed Congressman Chris Cannon from Utah today about his proposal to develop oil shale as a means of increasing oil supply and thereby lowering gas prices. Read the story here. To quote Congressman Cannon:
You know, if we’re going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost. And that’s oil shale.
In Utah and Colorado and to some degree in Wyoming we have an amazing amount of oil. If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it’s like three times as much as all of that combined and that’s just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available. And long term if we change the technology, perhaps as many as 4 trillion, with a T, 4 trillion barrels of oil. There’s enough, marginally if we just supplied all of our use in America instead of importing oil, it would be enough for 100 years or so.
There’s just no energy crisis in the world. There’s a regulatory crisis. So what I’ve done is I’ve introduced a bill that would give the President the authority to draw people together that can understand these issues in government and to sit down with people that want to develop that shale and say, okay, let’s figure out what you need to do to do it in an appropriate, careful, environmental manner and then let’s go forward with it. And that would mean fairly quick production of oil and that would have a big impact on the price of gas at the pump.
Go to Glenn Beck’s website to read the rest of the interview.
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