June 18th, 2005
Shale Oil Information Center, Inc. Presents,
A program to create national awareness at the secondary and post-secondary levels of education of the magnitude of the existence of the U.S. oil shale resource, and the importance and feasibility of its responsible development in order to mitigate the effects of the increasing oil prices, the preservation of our way of life, our national security, and our economic independence.
- Shale Oil Information Center (hereinafter refered to as the Center) has persuaded a volunteer group of university students in Miami Florida, to research, compile and prepare the following list:
- The name and addresses of all public and private high schools in the United States, along with the name of their respective principal or equivalent.
- The name and addresses of all public and private college and universities in the United States, along with the name of their respective chemistry department head or equivalent.
- The Center intends to send a box to each of the addressees on the aforementioned compilation containing ten pounds of U.S. oil shale, a brochure explaining the importance and the magnitude of the resource and its importance in mitigating the effects of the high prices of fuel, the preservation of our way of life, our national security, and our economic independence, plus a detailed explanation of a demonstration experiment, to be shown to the students to be made at the chemistry lab to extract the oil from the rock. We have also discussed the possibility of enclosing a video presentation.
- Ideally, the Center will find a grantor, who is a land owner containing oil shale deposits, that would be willing to donate properly grinded and sized shale, make available a suitable premise from which the Center's personnel can effect the packaging and the shipments and finance with a grant to our Center the cost of the project.
The compilation of the list and the implementation of the program herein described will create a significant awareness on the young generations, of the positive effect that the responsible development of the oil shale resource would have to their future wellbeing, to the economy of the nation and to its national security.
The Center intends to use the compiled list for subsequent updates to this audience of the development of a responsible development program for the U.S. Oil Shales.
