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re: I had to explain fracking to my wife last night.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:49 am to waiting4saturday
Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:49 am to waiting4saturday
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We've been fracking for a 100 years. every well drilled is fracked in some way shape or form. Only idiots are against fracking.
Awful lot of idiots who own an awful lot of land and are very successful ranchers in New Mexico then..... cause everyone I ever spoke to, and it is a sizable number, despise fracking and the oil industry in general.
Most of their issues deal with the number of people it takes to produce oil.....these aren’t what you’d call people persons....they thrive in New Mexico because they are hermits at heart and the oil field is teeming with people when oil prices are up. They also tend to be very conservative which means to conserve.....especially the land and water that sustains them. But screw the people who live in the oil patch, who do those idiots think they are???? They ought to know that people 1000 miles away know better than those on site....
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Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:57 am to Taxing Authority
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I've never met a fracking banner that could even describe what it was. Not one. They just know it's "Bad".
Not much different than climate change. Most people that are convinced it's real, and believe in "science" have ZERO knowlege of even basic Thermodynamics.
Indoctrination is real. Dunning-Krueger were right.
I think everyone that offers an opinion on science related topics should at least have 6 hours of college biology, physics and chemistry each. Instead we get beliefs based on media interpretations of the media's interpretation of scientist.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 8:59 am to AggieHank86
Those are good cartoons.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 9:02 am to Gtmodawg
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Awful lot of idiots who own an awful lot of land and are very successful ranchers in New Mexico then..... cause everyone I ever spoke to, and it is a sizable number, despise fracking and the oil industry in general.
It's not because of fracking in of itself. They despise it because of all the activity it creates around them.
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Most of their issues deal with the number of people it takes to produce oil.....these aren’t what you’d call people persons....they thrive in New Mexico because they are hermits at heart and the oil field is teeming with people when oil prices are up. They also tend to be very conservative which means to conserve.....especially the land and water that sustains them. But screw the people who live in the oil patch, who do those idiots think they are???? They ought to know that people 1000 miles away know better than those on site....
This is just an argument to be nice and respectful to each other which I think we should be. This is not an argument for or against fracking.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 9:07 am to Gtmodawg
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They ought to know that people 1000 miles away know better than those on site....
They do, because while older ranchers are mostly wise people, they are not smart .
Posted on 10/8/20 at 9:11 am to shawnlsu
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They do, because while older ranchers are mostly wise people, they are not smart .
WOW
Posted on 10/8/20 at 9:15 am to GumboPot
This OP illustrates how the Dim party continues to be relevant.....American ignorance and apathy.
Posted on 10/8/20 at 9:16 am to GumboPot
Fossil fuels are bad m'kay… why you want to watch the planet burn?
Posted on 10/8/20 at 9:19 am to Gtmodawg
quote:Summary:
Awful lot of idiots who own an awful lot of land and are very successful ranchers in New Mexico then..... cause everyone I ever spoke to, and it is a sizable number, despise fracking and the oil industry in general.
Most of their issues deal with the number of people it takes to produce oil.....these aren’t what you’d call people persons....they thrive in New Mexico because they are hermits at heart and the oil field is teeming with people when oil prices are up. They also tend to be very conservative which means to conserve.....especially the land and water that sustains them. But screw the people who live in the oil patch, who do those idiots think they are???? They ought to know that people 1000 miles away know better than those on site....
Posted on 10/8/20 at 9:20 am to GumboPot
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It's not because of fracking in of itself. They despise it because of all the activity it creates around them.
The industry is its own worst enemy. The greed that will allow a company to knowingly dump thousands of gallons of toxic sludge in an arroyo because it’s cheaper than disposing of it properly speaks VOLUMES about their intentions to the land they are exploiting. Take a ride through the oil patch and ponder upon the sea of trash and junk and rutted destroyed landscape that will take thousands of years to heal itself and you certainly understand their distaste for the industry. This isn’t even beginning to look into the possible damage that is done by pumping millions of gallons of chemicals, undisclosed BY LAW,, into the ground and making 10s of thousands of gallons of water per site unfit for any other use for hundreds of years in an area where water is arguably as valuable to locals as oil and it is easy to understand. Of course another poster suggested they were just not smart.....
Posted on 10/8/20 at 9:24 am to jeffsdad
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well I've never understood how they make 90 degree turns underground...
They use flexible ball joint drive shafts that allow for steering of the drill.
It doesn't really make a 90 degree turn it makes a curved turn
Posted on 10/8/20 at 10:56 am to Taxing Authority
Posted on 10/8/20 at 10:57 am to AggieHank86
Posted on 10/8/20 at 11:14 am to GumboPot
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Shale is like a sponge rather than a reservoir.
GumboPot - your explanation to your wife is correct except this part... A reservoir is like a sponge while a shale is like a layered concrete with gas trapped inside...
Posted on 10/8/20 at 11:17 am to GumboPot
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I had to explain fracking to my wife last night.
Tonight are you going to work on fractions or just let the teachers cover that at school?
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