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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is working on getting oil out of the Utah and Colorado oil-shale fields. It's believed that America's oil-shale would provide enough fuel to make America energy-independent for the next 100 years.
In recent news, the BLM has decided to exclude Exxon from the list of companies approved to do research and development leases on the Utah and Colorado land in the current test. Exxon wasn't ready to even start until 2014 -- that's why they're out.
The article states that "commercial operations ... could start as early as mid-2007."
