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May 25, 2015
Apparently we are supposed to be worried about fracking depleting water in California.
ThinkProgress reports that Despite Historic Drought, California Used 70 Million Gallons Of Water For Fracking Last Year.Similar concerns are raised by RT, Huffington Post, and even The New York Times. But 70 million gallons equals 214 acre-feet. Remember, alfalfa production uses 5.3 million acre feet. In our family-of-four analogy above, all the fracking in California costs them about a quarter. Worrying over fracking is like seeing an upper middle class family who are $6,000 in debt, and freaking out because one of their kids bought a gumball from a machine. California, Water You Doing? | Slate Star Codex
Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 25, 2015 4:22 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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The longest contiguous american coastline on the largest body of water on the planet yet they have no water why?
Posted by: ghostsniper at May 25, 2015 8:10 PM
ghost: Because a lot of people that live in Cali are whining, sniveling failures at Life. They are defined by their victimhood. They want to suffer and have the line between haves and have-nots shoved up their asses without the KY.
They vibe LOSER.
Posted by: chasmatic at May 25, 2015 10:35 PM
Chas: I was being facetious of course. My take is that Brown is vying for federal funding by way of emergency appropriations. I mean, why spend your own money that you don't have when you can spend other people's money that they don't have either?
Nevermind that whatever money he spends is stolen.
Posted by: ghostsniper at May 26, 2015 6:34 AM
ghost: 10-4.
"Follow the money" can be applied to all political actions.
Some folks actually believe that politicians care about us.
Posted by: chasmatic at May 26, 2015 6:51 AM
Well, that and the cost of gasoline has markedly dropped due to fracking, which means the family of four can afford more food.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 26, 2015 9:24 AM
If we discontinued import of fossil fuels and just used what we are sitting on
we would not run out of oil until the technology came along for something better.
Posted by: chasmatic at May 26, 2015 1:05 PM
Well it's been sitting at $2.79 for a month around here and my tanks getting low waiting for it to drop.
@chas, the technology is already out there but the big guys are not letting it happen.
Posted by: ghostsniper at May 26, 2015 7:07 PM
Too true, ghost.
Posted by: chasmatic at May 26, 2015 9:27 PM