Our big secret: oil shale reserves

The United States of America has about 70 percent of the world’s known oil shale reserves in the western states of the lower 48. These reserves contain approximately 1 to 2 trillion barrels of oil. This is about 4 to 8 times the current oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. If this country commits itself to performing a crash development of this reserve, we could eliminate our dependence on foreign petroleum sources and most of its geopolitical consequences. As world petroleum supplies become depleted in the next few decades, we may find that the United States will have become the world
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