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Full Throttle Ahead: US Tips Global Power Scales with Fracking
DER SPIEGEL ^ | February 01, 2013 | ALEXANDER NEUBACHER, RALF NEUKIRCH, MATTHIAS SCHEPP & THOMAS SCHULZ

Posted on 02/04/2013 6:55:01 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 02/04/2013 6:55:09 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

This is absolutely not in the progressives’ play book. They will HAVE to find a way to stop it.

So far they are knocked back on their heels and reeling. But don’t count them out. I bet they are planning their assault on the industry as we type.


2 posted on 02/04/2013 6:59:34 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

3.50 a gallon isn’t winning anything with me.


3 posted on 02/04/2013 7:02:41 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: Smokin' Joe; GOP_Party_Animal; Lion Den Dan; Max in Utah

Ping


4 posted on 02/04/2013 7:03:06 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

I read that headline a bit too fast at first. Major confusion.


5 posted on 02/04/2013 7:08:46 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: neverdem

Progressives would Nationalize energy production without a second thought..
Don’t think they are not thinking of it either..

Republicans to STOP them from doing it?...
SLAP SLAP... Wake up... get real here..
The pubbies are in epileptic seizure..


6 posted on 02/04/2013 7:09:49 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: DManA
They tried the assault with scares about how fracking dirties ground water.

Unfortunately for them, there are very, very few credible examples of dangers. The attempts have gone nowhere. Thus fracking has gone gang-busters in the last couple of years.

7 posted on 02/04/2013 7:20:19 PM PST by what's up
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To: what's up

Absolutely. But if facts don’t support their case they make up new facts.


8 posted on 02/04/2013 7:22:45 PM PST by DManA
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To: neverdem

This is wrecking the communists. Fracking is 1000 feet feet below water tables.maybe 2000 feet. leakage goes down. It has shattered their desire to kill this great nation,


9 posted on 02/04/2013 7:27:39 PM PST by willardwx
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To: hosepipe
Progressives would Nationalize energy production without a second thought..

My fear is that they will squander this resource by stealing all of the proceeds.

The energy resources is our ticket out of this financial morass we've created. Our only ticket.

10 posted on 02/04/2013 7:35:05 PM PST by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: DManA

I agree with you. The fact of the matter is that this will eventually be resolved one way or another by compulsion. Their position is so retrograde and Luddite, that in the long run it is most likely the left that will be obliterated.


11 posted on 02/04/2013 7:44:19 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Capitol to the districts: "May the odds be ever in your favor.")
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To: neverdem

Today Mary Fallin, the governor of Oklahoma gave her State of the State address.

The state fleet is being converted to natural gas fuel. Infrastructure is being developed for natural gas fuel dispensing.

One of the people working on this reported to her that he had driven one of the new vehicles about 200 miles and it only took about $5.00 of fuel to achieve.


12 posted on 02/04/2013 7:50:15 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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13 posted on 02/04/2013 7:53:26 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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14 posted on 02/04/2013 7:53:49 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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Some truckers here might mke $100 thousnd a year. None that I know. The oil truckers might but I doubt it. My best guess is it’s the water haulers that could reach that level of income.

They stay out there for days at a time, shower and eat when they fuel. They are paid twenty four/ 7 . Sleep when they can, haul water when called


15 posted on 02/04/2013 8:00:48 PM PST by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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My best guess is it’s the water haulers that could reach that level of income.

I agree with you. They are hiring and training locally for the Marcella play. Sadly, there are serious problems with finding hires who can pass the drug test. Could be an exaggeration by mid level players, but I doubt it.

Recycling "wastewater" will be the next big technological adoption. Economics is driving this technology. If everything pans out (and I think it will), water recycling could potentially drop a unit well cost by about 11 percent and open up many other shale plays in more arid regions.

This is pretty good news for water haulers.
16 posted on 02/04/2013 8:33:54 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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Water trucks like the kind that spray down roadside construction??


17 posted on 02/04/2013 8:38:46 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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Water trucks like the kind that spray down roadside construction??

Not sure what those are, but I'm not being glib when it appears that almost any water carrying truck with wheels is being grabbed.

Waste water is a little bit different.
18 posted on 02/04/2013 8:55:40 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: DManA
They would definitely make up facts if they could. They are scrambling to do so. But there's nothing they can do about the water table argument which is air-tight.

They will continue to look for other ways to defeat fracking but they will be stymied for some time IMO since most of their forces are marshalling in defense positions on gore-bull warming.

19 posted on 02/04/2013 9:21:06 PM PST by what's up
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping!


20 posted on 02/04/2013 9:21:06 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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