Perhaps my getting on the message board is making me be bolder and to just stop yelling at the TV.

So this independent group is running an ad against democrats about oil and in that ad they state that:

"The US has more oil resources than Saudi Arabia" So I checked an NOT true..I didn't think so.

Just like most of you I asked them to back up the claim. It was really funny..but it also made me mad.


Here is what I responded to their proof:

Tim....


Thank you for the info but perhaps you missed where I live...that would be Colorado. We have had several cycles of boom and bust in the oil shale business. I think one of the Bush brothers might have been caught up in one of those cycles. I am not a big green person but there are serious issues will oil shale. Your documentation is only a statement made by the current President of the United States who just says that ending the ban MIGHT free up 800 billion barrels of oil. A single quote from this President who in the run up to the war also stated that Iraq had tried to purchase yellow cake from Niger is not documentation.
The president also called for ending a ban on oil shale drilling in the Rocky Mountain states, a move he said
changing."

Off shore drilling numbers are quite a bit less.

Here is the post

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html

I welcome any reply or other credible information.

The add is being run but American Future Fund. Anyone else seen this ad? Or know who these guys are?

Maybe I just have come up with another issue....Oil Shale in Colorado

I will try to attach the documentation they sent.

Is there a way you can also provide a link to the claim? Perhaps the group sponsoring the spot has a web site where it's repeated - something like that?

If you look at the attachment it has the script of the ad and the documentation.

If you want the website to view the ad here it is:

http://americanfuturefund.com/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...ft=1&f=1102

NPR.org, August 20, 2008 · A new conservative advocacy organization, the American Future Fund launched its first effort in March 2008 with a television ad supporting Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, who faces a competitive race this year.

American Future Fund advocates free-market policies. It supports an energy agenda that includes drilling offshore and in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge; more oil exploration and refineries; and the development of nuclear and alternative sources of energy.

The organization is led by professionals who worked for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's failed 2008 bid for the Republican presidential nomination, among other efforts. Since the positive Coleman ad, other American Future Fund ads have portrayed Democratic politicians negatively.

The group plans to continue focusing on Senate races. It is a 501©(4) and has an affiliated political action committee called American Future Fund Political Action.

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I didn't even see that second link. Sorry and thanks.

Ah, the magic Google.