Re: Oil Shale
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Currently the United States is sitting on 2 trillion barrels of oil shale (yes, trillion)
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Use of big numbers to impress.
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By the way, don't waste your time trying to explain economics to Il Mostro. I had a similar discussion with him a few months ago about the differences between shortages and scarcity. He didn't get it then and he doesn't get it now.
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Of course I do. Do you understand extraction rates and energy return on energy input?
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The Wall Street Journal just did an article on this topic a couple of weeks ago stating exactly what you said.
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Is it possible to read it online? As of now, I'll take the words of geologists and petro-engineers over an article in a newspaper.
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