NO ENERGY FROM OIL SHALE?

Interior Decision on Oil Shale Locks Away American Energy Resource Larger than Total Reserves of Middle East. This is simply hard to believe. We'll pay billions for Saudi oil, but not unlock our own resources simply because it "might destroy our environment."

Here's what sticks in my craw.

As an engineer, I'm reasonably confident that American technonogy, dollar for dollar and BTU for BTU, can extract energy from the ground with less environmental damage than can any other nation on Earth.

If the environmental lobby had even an ounce of common sense, they'd be demanding that we "drill here, drill now."

But no, America is their back yard, you see.