$9 billion in Obama economic stimulus to create 910 jobs . . . $9.89 million per job. The Obama administration has closed 75 percent of previously available oil shale resources
The Interior Department announced last week that it will set aside 285,000 acres in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah for solar projects as part of its "solar energy road map." Firms can also apply for waivers to develop projects on an additional 19 million acres.[ia] This is in sharp contrast to the Obama Administration's canceling lease sales for oil shale deposits in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah early in the President's term and significantly downsizing development plans for those resources since then. The United States has the largest shale oil deposits in the world, totaling 2.6 trillion barrels, but access to our natural resources is being deliberately restricted by the administration policy.
