They use brine for fracking... higher S.G.
Thats true but not very common, few fracing companies have the equipment needed for salt water frac. It’s highly corrosive and will destroy standard steel pumps and lines. This is actually the way to go since every well produces some salt water naturaly and has to be hauled off on a regulat basis and disposed of. If the equipment is there it can be saved and used for fracing. The only problem with saltwater besides it’s corrosive properties is it’s weight which has a tendency to hold back the flow in the formation.
Seeing what has been going on in the Permian Basin over the last 2 years is nothing short of uneffingbelievable. This nation has amazing... I mean, AMAZING natural resources, and I find it particularly disturbing that the obstructionist liberals in this country insist upon roadblocks to prosperity... and our energy security.
The hypocrites are driving their daughters to dance class in SUVs, air conditioning and heating their underwater McMansions, and you ever notice that the same people driving 20 miles to go to Zumba Class are the same people that pay Mexicans to cut their grass?
I swear, the solution here is to cut off all entitlements starting TODAY, like right now.
Every kid starting today, ought not be entitled to a college education, and future student loan forgiveness on the taxpayer dime (eriously, that is the next bubble). Rather, they ought to get a job in the oilfield, picking fruit, mowing grass, swinging a spiking maul building railroad track... BEING PRODUCERS and not CONSUMERS.
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OK... now I best get my fat ass back to work.