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I often wonder how people that are at or below the poverty level manage to have a car.....

Shell's method, which it calls "in situ conversion," is simplicity itself in concept but exquisitely ingenious in execution. Terry O'Connor, a vice president for external and regulatory affairs at Shell Exploration and Production, explained how it's done (and they have done it, in several test projects):

Drill shafts into the oil-bearing rock. Drop heaters down the shaft. Cook the rock until the hydrocarbons boil off, the lightest and most desirable first. Collect them.

Please note, you don't have to go looking for oil fields when you're brewing your own.

On one small test plot about 20 feet by 35 feet, on land Shell owns, they started heating the rock in early 2004. "Product" - about one-third natural gas, two-thirds light crude - began to appear in September 2004. They turned the heaters off about a month ago, after harvesting about 1,500 barrels of oil.

While we were trying to do the math, O'Connor told us the answers. Upwards of a million barrels an acre, a billion barrels a square mile. And the oil shale formation in the Green River Basin, most of which is in Colorado, covers more than a thousand square miles - the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world.

I wish our mass transit system was better and less expensive....but it is MORE expensive to ride the train up to NYC from Wilmingtion DE than to drive.  Way more, even with my veteren discount.  I don't get that one.  And I aint taken a bus unless I have to, which is still more expensive, I think.

Actually we got a bunch of oil here need a bunch of heaters or a great big hammer.



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Yeah I was reading about that a few months ago. Actually thinking of investing in stocks related to it. Supposedly the US has more oil deposits in the form of shale oil than all the current oil reserves of the world combined.  I probably need to find that stock info and watch closely.