Fractured Flickers

map courtesy of the usgs.com earthquake tracker

I'm always impressed by logic. I get mad when logic is run up the pole as a false flag.  Regularly I'd spend a minute and tell you about false flags but now I'm kinda mad so look it up yourself.

Our natural gas fracturing companies run up a lot of false flags.  A true flag is that it creates jobs. No denying that.  So now on to the false ones:  it's clean, it doesn't pollute, water doesn't catch fire coming out of the kitchen faucet, it doesn't smell, it doesn't destroy the landscape.  Now on to the whoppers.

It is a cheap source of energy.  I like that one.  Our electrical system just passed on a huge energy surcharge because the price of natural gas just went through the roof.  Wait wait how can that be?? Comes the answer that this is supply and demand; which means "we have plenty of supply so we are going to demand a higher price".

The last of course has to do with earthquakes...thousands of them  Last night, near East Bugtussle, Kansas there was a 4.0 - a good jolt - at a depth of (wait for it....) a mile and a quarter in a heavily fracted zone at drilling depth.

The fracturing pigs have found the food in the trough so best not get between them and it.


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