That is, were our government not the very thing actively preventing us from achieving it so that it can keep with the transnational progressivist plan to use junk-science environmentalism as the justification for global wealth redistribution and, if things go well, an end to the silly, jingoistic framework of nation states and sovereignty.
But I digress:
The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Thursday.
The GAO testimony said that the federal government was in “a unique position to influence the development of oil shale” because the Green River deposits were mostly beneath federal land.
It also noted that developing the oil would have an environmental impact and pose “socioeconomic challenges,” that included bringing “a sizable influx of workers who along with their families put additional stress on local infrastructure” and “making planning for growth difficult for local governments.”
“The Green River Formation–an assemblage of over 1,000 feet of sedimentary rocks that lie beneath parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming–contains the world’s largest deposits of oil shale,”Anu K. Mittal, the GAO’s director of natural resources and environment said in written testimony submitted to the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
“USGS estimates that the Green River Formation contains about 3 trillion barrels of oil, and about half of this may be recoverable, depending on available technology and economic conditions,” Mittal testified.
“The Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, estimates that 30 to 60 percent of the oil shale in the Green River Formation can be recovered,” Mittal told the subcommittee. “At the midpoint of this estimate, almost half of the 3 trillion barrels of oil would be recoverable. This is an amount about equal to the entire world’s proven oil reserves.”
None of which matters to an ideological political movement that has embraced an anti-foundationalist philosophical stance (freeing them up to adopt a guilt-free, ends-justify-the-means intellectual framework) and that considers the “masses” a kind of perambulatory pollutant that needs to be managed, their very noxious exhalation is a poison to the earth itself meant for the enjoyment of the ruling class, who deserve exclusive vacation spots and rolling unspoiled vineyards for their pet Mexicans to work in. Because controlling the masses is hard work — and deserves to be rewarded.
Which in time perhaps the ungrateful herd will be made to understand. If things go well, that is.
FORWARD!
Romney, Romney he’s our man… If he can’t do it – no one can.
Energy Prohibitionists and Hydrocarbon Deniers marching bravely into a future that doesn’t exist. Forward indeed.
you’re forgetting that even if we drill the oils, we’re still gonna need an earth-raping pipeline to carry it to a refinery
check and mate
I suspect that the progressives will claim that recovering this oil will cause the Yellowstone Caldera to become violently re-active…
The easiest way to rule the proles is to put a choke-hold on the energy supply. So this oil shale discovery?
Contraindicated.
A movement to malign plant food called the green movement. You just have to laugh. It all truly is stranger than fiction.
No, no. We could put it on Mr. Buffet’s trains like that filthy Canadian shale oil. Except that we can’t drill it because algae.
Why don’t Canadians understand algae?
Oh, that was for this:
I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can
For God’s sake, do not make planning for growth difficult for local governments. Guess the best way to do that is to ensure that there is no growth.
I really liked that.
Heitor Villa Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2
Is that anything like Los Lobos?
Esmeralda Villa Lobos was Butch’s taxi driver in Pulp Fiction.
[…] I mean killing mad. As Jeff says: Energy independence is […]
So, Carter’s Department of Energy finally pays off! Energy independance! Well done! Now, can we disband this agency?
Heavily-subsidized National Soros Radio opens a new front in its war on energy independence
the rumbling of natural gas drilling rigs means no one can hear you scream
“Now it’s hard to make out the birds because of the rumbling of natural gas drilling rigs.”
It’s hard to watch the bald eagles, too, when they’re getting whacked to pieces by the wind turbines in California. Wind turbines that the Amish on the East Coast said “Nein” to when asked to install them on their farms. They said they upset their cows.
used to be the kind of sleepy rural place where the tweet of birds was the most you would hear. Now it’s hard to make out the birds because of the rumbling of natural gas drilling rigs.
pol pot was right: forced labor for the “intelligentsia”: peeling potatoes.
used to be the kind of sleepy rural place where the tweet of birds was the most you would hear. Now it’s hard to make out the birds because of the rumbling of natural gas drilling rigs.
give it 6-12 months and the birdees be tweeting again without the rigs. and the ng is flowing. good allan so many stupid peeps in the makebelievemedia™
They aren’t even trying to hide the fact they hate growth.
And progress.
Liberals who aren’t liberal and progressives who aren’t progressive.
Now it’s the kind of place where you can get a job.
They aren’t going to be happy until we’re all living in teepees and dragging our stuff around on a travois.
leigh, them first.
Damn straight, SDN. They should lead by example.
Heh…can we call this administration the Green River Killer?