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To: LindyBill who wrote (230383)	12/5/2007 3:08:25 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

all the major oil companies were big into oil shale in 70/80's still no one found it commercially profitable to develop it. I do not remember all the reasons why, shell report didn't go into details other than $20 bbl is break even... maybe its because of the other resources required to get the oil. lots of water, or more fuel, then contamination. what is left behind as they rip open these lands, flush them out, heat them up and dump the residue? I bet this hasn't been touched because we cannot even get a refinery built , can you imagine the epa, local , federal , challenges to any operation of this type esp. by environmental groups? its easier to get off shore drilling going than strip mining a state. g