Somehow it's fitting that the following come from a blog entitled Autopia.
Scientists hope that by perfecting technology that squeezes oil from a stone we can greatly increase the domestic U.S. oil supply.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory and Chevron are developing technology that can improve the yield of material from shale that can be turned into crude oil. The research will be undertaken in Piceance Basin in Colorado. According to Chevron "The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the United States holds 2 trillion barrels of oil shale resources, with about 1.5 trillion barrels of those resources located in the western United States, primarily in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah."
Sorry, but we'll be running on fuel cells with electrolysis-derived hydrogen before anything will happen with shale.
But please, prove me wrong.