Just to add a little perspective to the oil/gas drilling boom, they’re not finding any here in Wisconsin, so you’d figure it doesn’t matter much to us, although we tend to drive a lot of miles and spend a lot on heating, so lower prices eventually would help us out.
However, fracking uses a particular type of sand. I don’t know the characteristics of it, but I believe it has to be round, so it flows and doesn’t clump up, and strong, so it holds open the micro-cracks created during the fracking process.
Well, guess what, Western Wisconsin has such sand and now some landowners are selling mining rights at great prices, and operators are finding work mining, processing, and hauling. Amazing how economic activity spreads across the land in unanticipated ways when the government stands out of the way and lets it happen. Who’d have guessed an oil boom elsewhere would generate an economic bonanza in parts of Wisconsin?
Of course, given their way, the national Democrats and President Obama would shut the whole operation down overnight, which is beginning to dawn on more that just a few voters...
And watch out for the environmentalists... they are hard at work trying to shut down the fracking in northern PA. Which was a very hard hit economic area that has been turned into a boom area! But hey we can’t have that now can we? The dems need the welfare slaves.