ALL wells use casing that prevent fluids in the well from leaking into the surrounding rock unless they specifically want it to. Otherwise all that very expensive fluid and gas would simply leak away.
The Fracking process is largely horizontal in nature as the gas is trapped in a layered rock formation. Pressures used to fracture that rock are not enough to fracture many thousands of feet vertically.
And when you remove gas from the reserve, pressure decreases.
"i need to find a cheap glockenspiel" - Response: What do you need with a Glockenspiel? (or, more likely, "what the hell is a glockinspell...what?") "I just lost my wallet" - Response: "Dumbass", "Guess I'm paying", or "You still owe me $20" "i need to break up with my girlfriend" - Response: "She's hot, you're an idiot" or "About time, you were an idiot to date her in the first place"
Anything that moves us away from the huge and complicated system we have now is better.
But what many people don't discuss is that the current system is the ultimate manifestation of political favoritism; special tax breaks for industries and groups and in some cases even individuals...everything the progressives whine about.
What is especially rich is that academia is run by the same idiots who in debt, are providing support to the Occupy crowd and constantly bray about their education.
You write for the Onion...right? because they are pretty good at writing satire that is so good, you almost think it was written by someone who believes this shit.
But don't piss in the street, crap on cars and behave generally like animals and then try to claim some moral high ground. And it's my right to call them out for they: hypocritical losers.
And I might ask they same question of you...why is it you so hate people who have succeeded or believe that they can? Perhaps you realize that you never will.
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The spill in the gulf was not a case of oil leaking up through cracks in the sea floor (although it does do that naturally in the Gulf).
It leaked from a broken pipe ABOVE the sea floor.
You need to rethink your analogy.
ALL wells use casing that prevent fluids in the well from leaking into the surrounding rock unless they specifically want it to. Otherwise all that very expensive fluid and gas would simply leak away.
The Fracking process is largely horizontal in nature as the gas is trapped in a layered rock formation. Pressures used to fracture that rock are not enough to fracture many thousands of feet vertically.
And when you remove gas from the reserve, pressure decreases.
Readily available gas reserves DO exist close to the surface and DO permeate into water sources...but not because of fracking.
Same with Radon and other gases.
Gas reserves are far below water tables in complete different strata...five thousand to 20,000 feet, far , far deeper than any aquifer.
But you keep drinking that Kool Aid.
Say these things to a real person:
"i need to find a cheap glockenspiel" - Response: What do you need with a Glockenspiel? (or, more likely, "what the hell is a glockinspell...what?")
"I just lost my wallet" - Response: "Dumbass", "Guess I'm paying", or "You still owe me $20"
"i need to break up with my girlfriend" - Response: "She's hot, you're an idiot" or "About time, you were an idiot to date her in the first place"
If you don't like Macs or other Apple products, don't buy them.
Problem solved.
All those perfectly good laptops are going to be pitched into the ocean.
You have to let them out?
So do Tasers, bean bag rounds and tear gas.
That's a genre of music isn't it? Not very good music either.
Uh Oh. Now, I'll be moded flamebait by some aging punk rocker who switched to techno.
This was modded flamebait.
Here's some flamebait. Fucking DailyKOS and Huffpost troll mods are really stinking this place up.
"People's wishes" are conveyed by the Representatives they elect.
Apparently, the Representatives you elected in 2008 didn't think or care that you wanted out of Afghanistan.
Anything that moves us away from the huge and complicated system we have now is better.
But what many people don't discuss is that the current system is the ultimate manifestation of political favoritism; special tax breaks for industries and groups and in some cases even individuals...everything the progressives whine about.
If you were awake anytime during the last ten years you'd know about the community reinvestment act.
Google it yourself.
What is especially rich is that academia is run by the same idiots who in debt, are providing support to the Occupy crowd and constantly bray about their education.
Can we say Hoisted on their own petard?
"no ambition, poor math and writing skills, and not the brightest?"
So...the Occupy crowd?
That was a movie called Idiocracy. If they do a remake, you can be the head idiot.
You write for the Onion...right? because they are pretty good at writing satire that is so good, you almost think it was written by someone who believes this shit.
I give you a +1 for such an inane post, it's Beavis and Butthead funny.
School teachers can pursue other, more lucrative careers if they so desire.
Besides, the school teachers I know make pretty damned good money.
"No rhyme or reason" about sums up your post.
Pathetic.
I predict you will just sit in the local pub, singing silly songs and drinking yourself to death.
The economy crashed because of Toxic loans. Loans the banks were pretty much forced to make by the Feds in the name of "fairness".
Deserve what I earn.
Read it slowly.
I don't give a shit what they do.
But don't piss in the street, crap on cars and behave generally like animals and then try to claim some moral high ground. And it's my right to call them out for they: hypocritical losers.
And I might ask they same question of you...why is it you so hate people who have succeeded or believe that they can? Perhaps you realize that you never will.