<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Bush admin’s effort to spur oil shale production won’t do much for consumers in short run]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Russ http://www.grist.org/article/shale-we-dance/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:41:15 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/shale-we-dance/1 an absolute disaster

That such a hideous idea could even be seriously considered is a testament to the depavity and literal insanity of America's oil addiction.

Let's go over it:

Given the tremendous energy requirements to bake the shale, the EROEI would be paltry at best, perhaps negative. (Plus, if this input energy is mostly from burning coal, this will result in disastrous carbon emissions and bring on Peak Coal, already not far off, all the more faster.)

It would be astronomically expensive. Who's going to pay for it? (One of Pombo's bills, as you might imagine, would have socialized all the costs.)

It would require monumental amounts of water in a place already dying of thirst.

It would be an environmental cataclysm. Picture MTR throughout the Rocky Mountains.

Advocates of this, anyone who would actually try to do this, would be among the worst capital criminals of all times.

]]> an absolute disaster

That such a hideous idea could even be seriously considered is a testament to the depavity and literal insanity of America's oil addiction.

Let's go over it:

Given the tremendous energy requirements to bake the shale, the EROEI would be paltry at best, perhaps negative. (Plus, if this input energy is mostly from burning coal, this will result in disastrous carbon emissions and bring on Peak Coal, already not far off, all the more faster.)

It would be astronomically expensive. Who's going to pay for it? (One of Pombo's bills, as you might imagine, would have socialized all the costs.)

It would require monumental amounts of water in a place already dying of thirst.

It would be an environmental cataclysm. Picture MTR throughout the Rocky Mountains.

Advocates of this, anyone who would actually try to do this, would be among the worst capital criminals of all times.

]]> Comment #2 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/shale-we-dance/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:09:48 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/shale-we-dance/2 Shale we pay

7, 8, 9...bucks per gallon for gas to guzzle?  Or one dollar per gallon equivalent (same number of miles as a gallon of gas) on electricty for plugin hybrids?

A good question for legislators and candidates.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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7, 8, 9...bucks per gallon for gas to guzzle?  Or one dollar per gallon equivalent (same number of miles as a gallon of gas) on electricty for plugin hybrids?

A good question for legislators and candidates.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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