Wow, I had no idea that the U.S. was sitting on such a huge amount of oil (albeit oil shale). Maybe they should have used the money they spent invading Iraq to invest in making oil shale production viable. Woulda, shoulda, coulda, right?
Oil shale reserves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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