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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: Steve Wood on April 20 2012, 08:59:47 AM

Title: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: Steve Wood on April 20 2012, 08:59:47 AM

This would be a great article except the guys went to my school, Texas A&M, and not Texas University whose marching band consists of a bunch of clowns dressed up like Dale Evans that can neither march nor play.

It's strange that Obama makes speeches saying it is pointless to drill in this country because we use 20% of the world's oil while we only have 2% of the supply so we will never be energy independent.  On the other hand the USGS estimates we have about 25% of the undiscovered reserves in the world.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/16/exxon-shale-gas-fracking/?section=money_technology (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/16/exxon-shale-gas-fracking/?section=money_technology)

Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: daveismissing on April 20 2012, 09:23:52 AM

I do have discomfort pumping this stuff into the ground:
Fracking chemicals: benzene, lead,ethylene glycol, methanol, boric acid

Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: Steve Wood on April 20 2012, 09:34:43 AM

ironic that some of those are found in nature and that most of them originate from the ground.....mor e ironic that the government would have us dispose of even worse by digging a hole and burying them in Texas or Nevada

Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: ULYCYC on April 20 2012, 09:35:53 AM

Dave that sounds like a Canadian beer chaser :atbeer:

Looking at the map, Zap's backyard is ground zero. He hit the lottery again :icon_eyes:

Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: Steve Wood on April 20 2012, 11:56:45 AM

Perhaps we should clean this lead up and use it for fracking?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-20/smelting-lead-contamination-soil-testing/54420418/1 (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-20/smelting-lead-contamination-soil-testing/54420418/1)

Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: gbsean on April 20 2012, 07:14:22 PM

Here is my theory...and you can call me crazy...think of the big picture... let the rest of the world use up all its oil reserves..then the U.S. has the only supply left...and they will control the world....

Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: Top Speed on April 20 2012, 07:51:37 PM

I was thinking the same thing...

Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: Steve Wood on April 20 2012, 07:58:57 PM

sounds good, but, it will take several years to develop the infrastructure to get the transmission network in place...and then we have no refineries to make product.

Look at it this way, when the rest of the world begins to wonder where they will get their energy from, they will see this big fat pool of untapped reserves sitting over here and since we are now a food importer, energy importer, steel, importer, and electronics importer, it will not take much to obtain the surrender of this country.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might think this is all part of a plan to globalize the world economy into a system of consumer states under the thumb of Mr. X

Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: daveismissing on April 20 2012, 09:07:22 PM

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Title: Re: Interesting article on Exxon's move into shale and the fracking that goes on
Post by: daveismissing on April 20 2012, 09:08:23 PM

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