Fighting gas prices

Herzog

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Supergper said:
I dont know how true it is but I was listening to "Talk to the Governor" on KSL a few years ago (when Levvitt(sp?) was in office) and they were talking about the shale Utah has...I guess its quite a bit but we haven't been able to touch it cause of the Enviros :mad2:

Price sits on bed of shale... and most of those shear cliffs you see around Price are all Blue Shale. Carbon County is made of shale and coal.

Maybe I should buy some property down here. :eek:
 

Herzog

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Supergper said:
:rofl: and thats world wide...yeah, I'd say we have just a little bit here :D

Most of our trails in Price run through shale washes and old prospecting roads lined with shale cliffs... this stuff is EVERYWHERE here. It will be interesting to see what happens. There are already hundreds if not thousands of natural gas pumps all through out that area.
 

iceaxe

Backroad Adventurer
Location
Sandy
The whole premise of don't by gas on X day or even any short period of time is just plain flawed,

First if you plan to not buy it that day you know your still going to buy it, just the day before or the day after or whenever. Some of us avoid buying gas on Sundays as is, doesn't make a particle of lint of difference.
It was suggested on another forum that if we drove no more than 55mph voluntarily for a month it would actually have an effect.

Second if everyone got together and really did something that effected the amount of gas being consumed and profit in sales etc. what would be the results? an enexpected spike in supply causing an increase in storeage costs to the oil company due to the unexpected surplus, along with a loss of revenue so then what? as was mentioned earlier they just readily pass that cost along to thier customers right? I may be thinking wrong here but it seems to me an effective temoporary boycott of buying or using gas will only result in an increased price at the pump after the boycott. :eek:
 

cuban b

You're all WEAK SAUCE!
Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but the problem with oil shale isn't so much the enviros. It is finding a cost effective way to get the oil out of the shale, it is embeddid in the rock's structure. You can't just drill it.
 

Herzog

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cuban b said:
Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but the problem with oil shale isn't so much the enviros. It is finding a cost effective way to get the oil out of the shale, it is embeddid in the rock's structure. You can't just drill it.

From what I've been hearing, this is no longer a problem with new technologies. :cool:
 

OCNORB

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Alpine
cuban b said:
I've heard they're getting closer. But new technology and cost effective don't always go together.

There are mines in Canada already in production. As the cost of a barrel of oil goes up it will make the investment in the equipment more likely to happen. I would bet that the Canadian operation is subsidized in some way by their government.
 

Caleb

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Riverton
Herzog said:
From what I've been hearing, this is no longer a problem with new technologies. :cool:


this is what they were talking about on the show I was listening to 2+ years ago, they were saying they have now figured out (with new technologies) how to do mine it more cheaply then drilling in the traditional sense.
 
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