didja know that the usa has 3 times the amount of saudi arabia's oil, locked in oil shales, and that shell oil company has a way to extract that oil at 30 bucks a barrel. in situ ? it is true. we'll be able to wean off oil
and smoothly transfer to alternate sources with less worry than is being broadcast to the masses. the costs will go up then level off and then creep up. technology is moving ahead faster than you realize. in the meantime big oil companies are not asleep at the wheel. there are gigantic untapped reserves still in the ground, and it won't be strip mined out. it'll be pumped out, with the same footprint [or smaller] than current oil wells. it will happen