Ludditism at it most obvious. Without fossil fuels, our national elites would still be farming and our commerce would move by sail. Paradoxically, only the exploitation of oil and gas will enable mankind to learn how to develop other forms of energy, because first the capital must be obtained to do the necessary research.
First of it’s not a little town in Barnhart Texas, it’s a little town in Texas called Barnhart. Rough arid land with no water, thats why most of the ranchers run hair goats. If that ranchers running 500 head of cattle he’s going to need about 50 square miles of ranch and he’s still going to need a bunch of rain. I’m about a hundred miles nth of Barnhart, I’ve got some big ponds and a few water wells and nice green pastures for now. I can still only run 15 to 16 head per section.
If they drilled 100+ water wells on his place not only was he payed a per well price plus damages he’s also paid for the water that comes out of them. As we see in the article selling water for fracking is profitable and I’m sure he was paid hansomly for it and I’m will to bet he was given access to the water which is pretty much SOP.
If he did sell off his cows it was for the same reason we did over the last 2 years, there just wasn’t anything for them to eat due to the drought and you’ll go broke trying to feed them. I call bull shit on the whole article!
My well is not producing right now due to the fracking sun and not enough fracking rain.