Oil shale can ease fuel pain

Riding the public outcry on soaring oil prices, Rep. Chris Cannon is introducing legislation that would allow the president to skip the red tape on permitting oil shale extraction.
It’s a move aimed at speeding up what Cannon calls a vast domestic energy source.
Utah, Colorado and Wyoming hold what some oil shale supporters say is a Saudi Arabian-size reserve of synthetic oil in sedimentary rock that can be heated and processed into a fuel source. Six companies are now exploring the ability to extract the oil shale in Utah, but none is close enough to produce a commercially feasible product.

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