We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have been blessed in many respects with the explosion of the development of shale gas resources here in North America. It's both U.S. and in Canada.
About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.
Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!
No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.
There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.
We get more oil from Canada than any country.
Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.
Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.
The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.