Reader comments: Groups flay BLM over oil shale
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Dave | 8:37 a.m. Oct. 8, 2008
We have a supply and demand economy. Everytime we use a oil product, we are demanding that it be produced. If you don't want oil produced don't use it, problem solved. Of course you will probably be quite dead soon.
oil user | 5:01 p.m. Oct. 18, 2008
i think that it is not right that gas prices still are high in utah but the oil price has dropped
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Oil shale is quite expensive to extract. Without government assistance -- such as that advocated by your friend Democrat representative Jim Matheson -- attempts to develop the resource will go nowhere, at least until gas and oil get far more expensive than they are today.