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Oil Shale Developement in U S:Prospects & Policy Issues: Prospects and Policy Issues - Softcover

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9780833038487: Oil Shale Developement in U S:Prospects & Policy Issues: Prospects and Policy Issues
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0833038486 ISBN 13: 9780833038487
Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2005

Synopsis

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when crude oil prices were high, government and private-sector energy experts took a hard look at the costs and benefits of extracting oil from the vast deposits of oil shale that lie beneath the western United States (much of it under government land). Oil prices soon subsided, and interest in the topic waned. With oil prices again spiking and global demand showing no signs of abating, it makes sense to reexamine the costs and benefits of oil shale development. In this report, the authors describe the oil shale resources (estimated at more than triple the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia); the suitability, cost, and performance of technologies for developing these resources; and the key energy, environmental, land-use, and socioeconomic policy issues that need to be addressed by government decisionmakers. The authors conclude by outlining both the challenges and opportunities for early action with regard to those policy issues.

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Should the United States tap into its vast deposits of oil shale?

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Publisher
RAND Corporation
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0833038486
ISBN 13 
9780833038487
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
88