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Practical Method for Getting Oil from Oil Shale?
ConfigurationManager writes "An article in the Rocky Mountain News describes how Shell has demonstrated a practical way to extract oil from the shale deposits in Colorado. Since it describes those deposits as "the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world," that could be a very good thing for those of us who are currently paying anywhere from $3 on up for a gallon of regular unleaded."
Shell bosses feel chilly, find new way to warm Earth.
If i'm understanding the process correctly, it involves drilling a lot (A LOT) of holes from the surface. Kind of makes oil wells sound like environmentally friendly devices.
(Are you listening Captain Planet?? We need your help!)
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
in the UK, we have road tax, which is, in theory, to pay for road maintainance and stuff. fuel tax is just to line the governments pocket*
[*] so they can spend it on genetically modifying chickens to speak, and be 14 foot high, and eventually be bread into a super police, to control every aspect of our lives
NOTE: this post may contain peanuts^H lies, damn lines
And they say Americans are stupid for not adopting the metric system. Look at how much we save by using Imperial measurements!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Many people here in Europe pay over $5.60 per gallon nowadays. We wish we had $3.00 per gallon prices.
Yeah, but my SUV only gets a quarter of the mileage your little Peugeot gets. Looking at the real math,
you pay (US-Gas * 2)
but (Mileage * 4)
making my costs per mile DOUBLE yours in Europe. I'm amazed you can't understand why we are complaining.
Now that I have made it clear, we are paying twice as much as you are.
I'm considering cycling past the local schools here and slapping bumper stickers on all the SUVs parked outside. Two slogans spring immediately to mind:
"Protecting my Kids... Fucking the Environment!"
"MY kids are safe... YOURS aren't!"
Argh.
Thats a nice thought, but it will never happen since you would have to get the people who this would effect to enact it.
I mod everyone down who says "I'll get modded down for this." I hate to disappoint.