Our "best reserves" imo, are in the country's shale. The day will come, when the country will wish they didn't use so much of it. I don't think the shale should be touched until it's really needed, which could be decades down the line or more, and even then it would be helpful energy security for the future. Instead, it will all be extracted until it's gone, for a quick buck - polluting our water and removing a critical potential energy reserve when it's not really needed.
There is more oil in the Colorado shale than all the known reserves in the world and every drop of oil ever used all put together. There are over 2 TRILLION barrels of oil.
Hopefully, we will have developed some type of alternative energy as a routine matter of growth. Nothing against petroleum but a patent or two for perpetual energy is out there, just purchased and owned by the govt at this point, from what I understand.
Our "best reserves" imo, are in the country's shale. The day will come, when the country will wish they didn't use so much of it. I don't think the shale should be touched until it's really needed, which could be decades down the line or more, and even then it would be helpful energy security for the future. Instead, it will all be extracted until it's gone, for a quick buck - polluting our water and removing a critical potential energy reserve when it's not really needed.
There is more oil in the Colorado shale than all the known reserves in the world and every drop of oil ever used all put together. There are over 2 TRILLION barrels of oil.
https://rense.com/general70/doro.htm
Hopefully, we will have developed some type of alternative energy as a routine matter of growth. Nothing against petroleum but a patent or two for perpetual energy is out there, just purchased and owned by the govt at this point, from what I understand.