# Oil Shale... Someone Skewl Me **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 21, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-shale-someone-skewl-me/53604 "2008-08-21T05:40:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-shale-someone-skewl-me/53604/11 "2008-08-21T08:22:05Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > From what I’ve read the big question is how much is “recoverable oil”. Yes, it’s 5x the reserves of Saudi Arabia, but if you can only recover 5% it’s not so great. > > You can pretty guarantee that if oil stays above $80/barrel, which it probably will, money will be spent on finding a way to get the oil out of there. Those damn oil companies and the money they make blah blah… Well… Oil companies are going to want to stay in business and this is oil, what they do, and with that said im sure they would rather start finding new ways to keep people using oil before other energys become too much a part of our life… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-shale-someone-skewl-me/53604)._