Coincidence:

Interior Department clears way for experiments in extracting shale oil in Colorado

I think not! Those crafty, crafty Jews!

This is clearly the first salvo in the REAL WAR against Islam.

Can you feel the OUTRAGE yet?

CAIR is firing up their press release machines as we speak.

Their spin will be that digging for shale oil is offensive to Muslims and is a slap in the face to Mohammed, their prophet, and that we must stop immediately, or risk "consequences."

Even at double their estimates, countries with a lot of shale could still undercut OPEC prices by half. Countries like Canada and the United States -- and Israel

Adding my two-cents.....

The dirty little secret about the "there is only 6 months worth of oil in ANWAR" talking point from the "left" is the fact that figure was meant if no other source was taken into consideration.

For example 6 months means no domestic or foreign oil is thrown into the equation. But the left wants you to believe through pure deception that it means once the spigot is turn on it will run dry in half a year. And that isn't worth disturbing the caribou for such a small amount.

By all measures ANWR is probably the largest single oil field in this hemisphere. Using the real figures of adding other sources we could cut off Saudi oil out of our supply for good as leverage in dealing with the Middle East.

But you can't convince the lefties that this is in our long-term best interests. They are still stuck on stupid with the chant of "only 6 months worth of oil".

And when their only answer back is we must invest in alternative sources, I won't disagree. But until the Mr. Fusion attachment for your car is ready for market we must not be held hostage to OPEC.

There, that's off my chest.....

Cheers.....

Joe,

I second what you've written, but would remind you that the left, while newly empowered, didn't prevent drilling in ANWR.

The Republicans, who were in control of the House, Senate and White House for the past 6 years prevented drilling in ANWR.

It's one of the reasons they are now in the minority.

They just don't get it that we Americans get a really, really bad taste in our mouths every time we fill up the gas tank, knowing that money is going to be used by the Saudi's to build radical Mosques right here in the United States.

I like this part:

"....there seems to be no escape for the Lebanese people as long as the Israelis keep hitting back."

Typical adolescent behaviour. Its all somebody else's fault. The Lebanese are W-E-A-K as a government and are incapable of stopping the terrorists based in their country. So rather than deal with their (Lebanese) terrorist problem, blame someone else for actions taken against their (Lebanese) based terrorists.

Those pesky Jooos. Always wanting to stand up for their right to live! It would be so much easier if they would just quit defending themselves, commit suicide and invite the U.N. in to keep the peace.

Ok, I can't resist...based on today's news, here's a possible reinterpretation of one of my favorite little hadiths:

"A Muslim will hide behind an oil shale rock, and the oil shale rock will call upon the members of Dar al Harb: "O Beloved, O child of Yahweh! There is a Muslim behind me, sucking oil out of the ground like a tick sucks the blood of the dog, to hurt our House, come and kill his source of wealth!".

Ahhh, I feel so much better.

Do I get a discount on multiple fatwas now?

The Republicans, who were in control of the House, Senate and White House for the past 6 years prevented drilling in ANWR

Rightnumberone,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the White House was for drilling, the Republican House was for drilling, the Republican Senate was for drilling, but was it not filibustered by Democrats, thus needing 60 votes to open up for drilling. Some RINO's did side with Democrats but there was still a simple majority there to open ANWAR.

For brevities sake, I'm posting this without links because I'm off to the grindstone. However, when I return, time permitting I will research this further.

This is going to be an insult to all of Islam!

I need a fatwa.

NOW!

Shale oil at 17 bucks a barrel? Holy crap! I seem to recall from back in the mid-'70s, the last time shale oil was looked at seriously, that the estimated reserves of shale oil in the western U.S. exceeded the combined total of all of the known finds ever found in the country up to that point. If we could get to using nuclear and some coal for baseline power generation and reserve oil use mainly for transportation and petrochemical manufacturing, we could solve the Middle East problem in one fell swoop by simply making it irrelevant.

And I should add that one reason shale use didn't get started back in the '70s was not necessarily that shale was inherently too expensive. It was because back then, conventional crude oil was regulated (a contributing factor to the gasoline shortages of that decade). Shale couldn't compete with the artificially low regulated prices for conventional crude. By the time Reagan got conventional crude deregulated, around 1981, investment money had lost interest in shale.

Jumpinjoe, I just watched "Back to the Future" with my kids. I realized that we're living 20 years into the future of Back to the Future.

Where is Mr. Fusion? (sobs) But with Bush's deregulation of the energy industry, we might finally see cheap nuclear energy, oil shale, and clean natural gas like the monster gas field in Wyoming (The Jonah Field.) Perhaps even Mr. Fusion.

Then the Arabs can go back to tending camels and eating sand while we set up Moon Base Alpha.

Hey, I can dream.

I have read estimates of up to 800 BILLION barrels of oil in the Green River Basin in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.

The San Juan plateau in the Four Corners region has over 100 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas. It's also the world's largest uranium field.

There are trillions more cubic feet of gas off our coasts.

Alberta has almost as much oil as Saudi Arabia.

Add in ANWR, the Gulf of Mexico, and the outer shelf, and you see we really have no reason to import energy sources from the Middle East.

We will never be free to deal with the Saudi-funded Jihad until we end our reliance on "their" oil (which we found, which we pump out of the ground, which we refine, which we transport, which...well you get it).

Bonnie,

It gets even BETTER.

We've figure out how to terraform Mars. Fire up the big frickin' space mirrors Chekov!

Maybe someone already pointed this out, but the word is benighted - refering to night and/or darkness - not beknighted, which presumably would refer to someone or soemthing that has been tapped on the shoulder with a sword.