Peter Sterling

An Alternative to America’s Gasoline Crisis

excellent information. If I can get rid of my excursion I might buy one.
I was not aware of the tax credit. I grew up in Australia. There it used to cost only $500 to convert any car to CNG. So I still have have a problem paying so much more for one. So I still think the $22k for the CNG Civic is a bit steep. It should be maybe $1,000 more than the gasoline version. But for most people the math still works fine, especially with the $5 gas price.

Yes we can drill our way out of this very simply and easily. There's actually probably $500 billion barrels of oil and gas on the US continental shelf. About 60% in the form of clean gas. see strategicnine.com

As for the shale. I flew over a demo shale oil plant near Grand Junction Colorado in the late 1980s. It was costing them $36 to make a barrel of oil then, using a really stupid retort design. There are lots better ones available now, that use part of the shale to fire the process.

I think the US could produce a modest amount of Shale oil without harming the environment. 1-2 million barrels per day. Everyones thinking about 10 million barrels a day and that would use too much water. the smaller amount would replace 10-20% of imports and power the midwest.

I like natural gas the best. Its a good clean fuel for everything. Texas A%M has developed a process to turn natural gas into gasoline. I think the economics don't quite pass muster yet though.


Some Individual Super-Giant Priority Energy Projects to Fast Track

1) Blake Ridge Gas: Instruct the MMS to immediately grant leases on priority development areas including the Blake Ridge super-giant gas lease. See; strategicnine.com

2) Bering Sea Abyssal Gas: Support the Strategic Nine Bering Sea Abyssal Claim so as to enable the consortium to fast track it’s gas development. See; www.strategicnine.com/...

3) Arctic Ocean Commons Claim: Support the United Oil & Gas Consortium’s Claim on the Arctic Oceans Commons area immediately adjacent to Alaska and Canada’s 200nm EEZ and beyond the bogus Russian Claim area, see unoilgas.com .

4) Colorado Oil Shale: Put aside the 1 year hold up on oil shale leasing activities and fast-track any required permits to enable production to commence quickly.

5) Alaska Chukchi Sea Leases; Put aside the often frivolous environmental lawsuits and permits requirements, which is holding up drilling on this and other properties.