Fracking

[Ross]

This web site shows pictures (Drawings) of oil fields some show two different depth levels drilled horizontal. This represents drilling only one mile horizontal. Today they can drill 6 to 8 miles horizontal and possibly further.

This site also shows a map of oil fields in the US, Kansas oil fields included.

http://frackingfarm.drillfrackrepeat.com/

[Diane Amberg]

Looks like I should go back to my Uncle Bill's place and Frack those old played out wells. I might make a fortune....not.

[Warph]

Warph, it seems more like scare tactics.  They've been fracing for years.  Where's the proof?
Is this another attempt to expand the Federal government?  Sure looks like it.

Just a few to start with:

http://www.biology.duke.edu/jackson/pnas2011.html

http://www.biology.duke.edu/jackson/projects.html

http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/fracking-on-pnas-website

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/0509/Fracking-for-natural-gas-is-polluting-ground-water-study-concludes

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/0417/New-warning-of-poisonous-chemicals-in-natural-gas-hydrofracking

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fracking+water+fire&oq=fracking&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_l=youtube.1.1.0l10.6204l9016l0l20375l8l8l0l1l1l0l516l922l4-1j1l2l0.

[redcliffsw]

Warph, are the Duke people and their research financed by the government?

Government money has a way of achieving the results that the liberals want.

Nothing like building a bigger government and that's where the Republicans are taking us.

[Diane Amberg]

Does the Republican Party know they are liberals?

[Warph]

Warph, are the Duke people and their research financed by the government?
Government money has a way of achieving the results that the liberals want.
Nothing like building a bigger government and that's where the Republicans are taking us.

Red, why would the government pay out big bucks to promote anti-fracking studies when they are for fracking.

http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/obama-gives-fracturing-the-green-light/3415

If the government and the oil companies could insure that fracking would not hurt the water supply in years to come, i'd be all for it.  But as it stands, fracking has caused big problems over the years with water supplies all over the U.S.

[Patriot]

Does the Republican Party know they are liberals?

Would they care?  

Let's ask Norm Coleman or Richard Luger or Arlen Specter or John Warner... or maybe that Brownback fella.  

Oh, that;s right, they are 'moderate' conservatives.  Isn't that just another way of saying, "Lacking in conviction and without  constitutional understanding, or milquetoast."?

[jarhead]

Quote from Patriot:
Would they care?

Let's ask Norm Coleman or Richard Luger or Arlen Specter or John Warner... or maybe that Brownback fella.


Patriot,
The term us conservative Repubs have for them types is RINO---but I think you already knew that.

[redcliffsw]

Republicans' history is based upon liberalism.  Republicans never saved the Union, they changed it from what the Founders intended.

[Patriot]

Republicans' history is based upon liberalism.  Republicans never saved the Union, they changed it from what the Founders intended.

After making a reasoned review of the events and outcomes of the mid-1800s (the shifting to an all knowing all powerful central government and away from state sovereignty) it does seem that they turned the united states into something of a Hotel California... once in, you can check out, but you can never leave.  So much for any future declarations of independence.

And to this day, many repubs seem hell bent to sell the same concept to other sovereigns via 'nation building'.

Isn't that just the jumbo version of the left's 'busybody, do gooder, solve society's ills' (real or imagined) mentality?  Got problems or poverty?  Give us the unlimited power of government & we'll fix it... either in Detroit, Mississippi, Iraq, or dare I say Elk County.