Drill Baby Drill

Mitt Romney has the perfect opportunity to take advantage of Obama's hostility toward fossil fuels.  America is overflowing with oil reserves.  We need to create jobs to jump start our economy, and we desperately need to get off of our dependence on Middle Eastern oil.  It seems like the solution to both problems lies right in front of us.  Now, all we need to do is throw the liberals, starting with the Marxist in the White House, to the unemployment lines.

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GAO: Recoverable Oil In Colorado, Utah, Wyoming “About Equal To Entire World’s Proven Oil Reserves” Combined…

And yet the Obama administration believes the future lies is in algae and explodingChevy Volts.

(CNSNews.com) — The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Thursday.
The GAO testimony stressed that the federal government was in “a unique position to influence the development of oil shale” because the Green River deposits were mostly beneath federal land.
It also noted that developing the oil would pose “socioeconomic challenges,” which included bringing “a sizable influx of workers who along with their families put additional stress on local infrastructure” and “making planning for growth difficult for local governments.”
“The Green River Formation — an assemblage of over 1,000 feet of sedimentary rocks that lie beneath parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming — contains the world’s largest deposits of oil shale,”Anu K. Mittal, the GAO’s director of natural resources and environment said in written testimony submitted to the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
“USGS estimates that the Green River Formation contains about 3 trillion barrels of oil, and about half of this may be recoverable, depending on available technology and economic conditions,” Mittal testified.
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