Oil Shale reserves in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming have been known for nearly a century. Oil Shale reserves were known in the 1920’s unfortunately the technology wasn’t good enough at that time.
Oil shale is the oldest know source of hydrocarbons: long before the big rigs that could drill for oil 100’s of kilometers below the surface of the land or sea oil shale was known to the ancient world and prized for the rare dark medicinal sludge which seeped from it. As the price of oil goes up the economics of not only alternative oil substitutes but also alternative oil sources such as oil shales which have been known about for a long time but have always been intrinsically more expensive to develop. Too expensive to develop until the big oil reservoirs start to run down: this is what peak oil is all about: not the end of the world as we know - just the beginning of a far more interesting future especially for the companies and engineers developing technologies such as oil shale.

Gas has just hit $4/ gallon in the US - which really doesn't evoke much sympathy in the rest of the world. In the UK gas Now a US gallon is 3.7litres. So $4/gallon fuel priceequates to $1.08

June 6, 1945 was D-Day, WWII On D-Day the allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy code named Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword. Troops from England, Canada, New Zealand and United States were included in this long