Salt Lake Tribune: In a blind rush to promote oil shale development, the Bureau of Land Management released rules Nov. 17 governing public-land oil shale operations and royalties. Not surprisingly, oil shale royalties are a fraction of those charged for other public-land energy resources. Why do we have to sweeten the deal when the Rocky Mountain oil shale potential energy reserve is both enormous and seductive? Past attempts to subsidize the industry have not worked. Why? To begin with, it is …