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Squeezing Rocks To Produce Black Gold

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- 102 days ago - cbsnews.com

<p>Heat and squeeze a shale rock and out seeps precious oil. Colorado has over a trillion barrels of oil locked in its shale--more than all the oil reserves of the Middle East. Noted in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.</p>

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Dan Mahony (49)

Tuesday July 1, 2008, 2:17 am
We don't need oil from Arabia! "GE says: Progress is Our most important Product!" We don't need drilling into the Prestine Arctic"! America Has It! All! Use the Waste we have! Called Recycling! Cheaper--and the Oil Barons have to bite their nails and grate their teeth! Time has come!

Marian L. (0)

Tuesday July 1, 2008, 8:52 pm
Is nothing sacred anymore? The oldest beings on earth - the rocks - and we would kill them to get silly drops of oil for our own convenience. It must be out of ignorance. They are beings like you and me.

Judy Miller (0)

Wednesday July 2, 2008, 7:36 pm
Don't tear down the Rockies for oil

MyKinK Star (11)

Thursday July 3, 2008, 1:23 pm
We should have been doing this all along! Then maybe, MAYBE we'd be closer to NOT being attached so deeply to foreign oil and more invested in using other energy sources, such as wind and solar. We have to start SOMEWHERE, and there's no good reason that it shouldn't be here. If we pay attention, this won't 'tear down the Rockies.'