Energy | Oil Shale | WSJ

Those of us who were living in Colorado back in the late '70s and early '80s remember the oil shale boom in the northwestern part of the state and the crash of Black Sunday (May 2, 1982) that brought it all down. The oil shale didn't go anywhere, of course. However, the price of oil has made it a heckuva lot more interesting (just like Canada's tar sands). Here's a brief article on where things stand today. How much oil is in the US oil shale? How about 800B barrels - or about triple the current proven reserves of Saudi Arabia.