Surprised Bill Clinton didn't make a National Park out of that like he did with all that clean burning coal in Utah!
Evie 
under the Nevada desert.
http://www.klastv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4877010
On certain outcroppings in central Nevada, you can pick up a rock, bust it open, and literally smell petroleum, or something like it. Deposits of chainman shale are thicker there than anywhere outside of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Chowhound
Comic Vine
GameFAQs
GameSpot
Giant Bomb
TechRepublic