Posted on 11/17/2013 10:59:43 AM PST by Kaslin
We must save Mother Earth! You did not get the memo?
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People are really getting fracking crazy out there.
Compare.
Mora-poor.
Farmington NM- Rich.
Roswell-Rich
Carlsbad-Rich.
Guymon OK rich
Woodward OK-Rich.
All because of fracking and gas extraction.
Central Oklahoma is now going gangbusters because of oil drilling.
Now compare Van Buren county Arkansas -Poor, but not any more now that gas extraction is taking place.
Of course, when the boom is over, things may change as I’ve seen happen many times.
Mora will still be poor, but the other areas will also be poor for those who don’t have mineral rights.
The efficacity of an engineering solution has never been determined by popular vote. Either the system works, or it does not. When the system does not work, or is ineffective, then the shortcomings are determined and overcome.
Prohibiting any course of action altogether, especially on flimsy arguments against it, is denial of the ingenuity of the human mind. All the Luddites that railed against the introduction of weaving machinery for cloth, were proved to be obstacles in the growth of prosperity through industrial development. Ned Ludd, a 18th century Leicestershire workman who destroyed a knitting frame, was the spiritual leader of a widespread movement among the guilds of manual workers, who wrongly though their livelihoods were being destroyed by the new technology.
blah blah blah dispite the fact that fracs have never polluted anything, they are bad.
ethanol production is good. nevermind it takes a gallon and a half of gas to produce one gallon of ethanol, nevermind that our ground water is being polluted with chemical fertilizers.
The fact that my neighbor becomes wealthy has no negative effect on my circumstances, as a matter of fact, it probably only helps as said neighbor may spend his money on a business or service I provide or support a charity that I believe in.
LOL, How much Fracking do they do in Towns ? LOL
never mind that ethanol eats fuel lines, you need to hire people to mow your yard. They are professionals.
We older ones have seen this before. Back in the 70’s with the anti-nuclear power ‘Clamshell Alliance’ types (and Hollywood of course with The China Syndrome).
never mind that I get 20% less mpg with an ethanol blend because no matter how much you wish it were so, ethanol does not have the energy density of octane.
The yoots have not got the memo that enviro nazi’s want to eliminate 95% of the human population.
A blend of 90% gasoline and 10% ethanol has more than 95% as much energy as pure gasoline, and yet it seems that the reduction in fuel economy is far more severe than caloric content would suggest. I can imagine a variety of factors which could cause a vehicle to travel less far on 1oz of ethanol mixed with 9oz of gasoline than it would travel on 9oz of gasoline mixed with nothing, but I don't know to what extent such factors apply. It would be interesting to know what such research would show, though given its extreme political-incorrectness I'm not sure who would conduct it. Certainly it shouldn't be difficult to have some test subjects in a double-blind test receive all their gasoline for some period of time from the entity running the test, and measure how the fuel economy when using pure gasoline compares to the fuel economy when using ethanol blend.
I would suspect that some of the loss in mileage is because the engine is not optimized to the blend.
The corrosivity of ethanol is probably also a factor, making it necessary to perform regular maintenance more frequently. If that’s not done, mileage goes down.
Ethanol is diluted gasoline, so it means I have to buy more of it than plain old gasoline.
The feds and states tax fuel consumption at the pump “by the gallon”.
Do you wonder where their vested interest lies?
Thanks Kaslin.
Yep. Me too. I dropped from 20 mpg to 17. Thanks Big government. I ‘d go protest, but I have to go to work!
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