Here are Ed Quillen’s insights into the new year from the High Country News. From the article:
Petroleum prices will spike for some reason or another, perhaps political tension in the Persian Gulf or a storm in the Gulf of Mexico. Whatever the gulf, this will inspire politicians to demand the immediate development of “America’s vast oil shale reserves” in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. And of course they will denounce anyone who points out that to date, there is no economical method of producing petroleum from these rocks as they forget the old but true saying that “Oil shale is the fuel of the future — and always will be.”
Or my personal favorite, “Oil shale has been the next big thing in Colorado for over a hundred years.”
More from Ed:
The Colorado River will continue to be over-appropriated, and someone will propose supplying southern California with water via tanker ships from Siberia or towed icebergs from Alaska, thereby allowing California’s share to be used by other states. But no such water will be imported in 2011.