You forgot to add: "...in a van down by THE RIVER!"
Posted on 03/24/2014 9:01:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Forget building this city on Rock and Roll and try Fracking instead. Just don’t try building it on solar power, wind power or pixie dust.
The U.S. metro area with the lowest unemployment rate is a shale oil boomtown. The one with the highest unemployment rate houses the world’s largest solar plant.
According to data released on Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Midland, Texas, has a 2.9 percent unemployment rate, the lowest in the country. Midland sits above the Permian Basin Shale, a massive formation that constitutes a large chunk of Texas’ booming shale oil industry.
The West Texas town is also one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country, which many attribute to its booming oil-fueled economy.
In contrast to the successes of those oil and gas boomtowns, Yuma, Ariz., is facing the highest unemployment rate of any U.S. metro area at a whopping 26.1 percent.
Yuma is the site of the Agua Caliente solar plant—the largest photovoltaic solar generation facility in the world.
Agua Caliente received a $967 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy (DOE) in 2011. According to DOE, federal financing helped create 10 permanent jobs
1 billion dollars to 10 jobs. That’s only 100 million dollars a job. At that rate it will only take all the money in the world to create enough Green Jobs to end unemployment.
If only we had an industry that created revenues and jobs.
It’s the same small minded baloney I expect from an intelligent question. There’s no discussion just condescending opinion based on nothing
No conversation
I have a science degree, when I studied, we had questions and answers. Now it’s a lot of greed covered up with pushy opinions. If there are jobs and money everything is good. But you’re no different from amnesty pushers. If its good for corporations it’s good.
Joke about nukes all you want but even France and Germany great champions of the stuff have retreated after the Japan deal. They likely know a lot more than what’s already obvious. It’s a complete disaster
You forgot to add: "...in a van down by THE RIVER!"
Even more odious are those who unthinkingly toe the environazi line.
See. I ask a question, and am accused of not thinking.
That’s unthinking of you.
Leave me out of your ignorance.
The Saudis are paying for all the anti-Fracking propaganda, that should tell you everything you need to know.
Doesn’t fracking cause globull warming...and cause the missing airplane????
What made you think I was attacking you? What I said was a statement of fact, I didn’t say anything like “if the shoe fits” or anything like that.
I would have thought you would have agreed with my statement.
Just minerals. It’s primarily well water in Midland.
Strong bones.
“There is 3 if not 4 layers of steel (pipe) between the fracking fluid and the fresh water.”
And several feet of cement behind pipe.
More to the point, fresh water is a couple hundred feet down. The Wolkcamp/Sprayberry formations where the fracing occurs in a horizontal well is about a mile down with billions of tons of granite on top of it. The fractures go 10-20 feet and have to be propped upon (due to the weight of all that rock) with some kind of proppant -— sand, whatever.
People used to blow nuclear bombs at the bottom of wells and not get a puff of dust up at the surface, to give an example.
This is a couple of pressure trucks and a lot of water.
Wolk = Wolf sorry.
It’s actually “fracing”
No “K”
West Texas for “fracturing” that apparently caught on.
... which was pretty much the case even before fracking came along ...
Thanks
Hey you stupid liberals out there... read this one!!! Eff you Al Gore...
from the Spectrum, Dec, 2013:
[in France] Legislation to be introduced early in 2014 could include a new nuclear electricity tax, which would help subsidize an accelerated transition toward renewables. A third-generation reactor under construction in Normandy since 2007 could be the country’s last.
what’s the word on fracking? Is it so safe?So far as we know. There are still some questions on it lately, in relation to contamination of groundwater through use of new methods, but it's nothing serious. We've been fracking since the 1940s with no problem.
No “k” in fraccing.
Yep.
It’s all about the money, and the gullible.
And how much of our tax dollars are stolen from us at the point of a gun to force us to pay for it.
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