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Energy and the Environment Are they two competing things, or both the same thing? Oil, Drilling & Alternative Energies and environmental policies |
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This is still yet another reason I am grateful to be in my early 50s instead of my early 20s - i likely won't be around for the endgame.
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This is the real reason behind the ethanol boondoggle. How better to rapidly use up our free and abundant groundwater - creating a "crisis" - than to mandate a product in fuel which takes 1,200 gallons of water, to make one gallon of? Once the "crisis" takes hold, the federal government will be able to take possession of all water rights. It's happening - we foolishly grow one of the most water intensive crops on the planet - corn - right here in the semi arid region where it takes massive irrigation to do so - and the aquifer is plummeting as a result. The Eco-nuts who demanded ethanol be mandated for fuel - to 'save the planet' - have themselves reversed their opinion of it universally, and have been calling for the ethanol boondoggle to end for years now. Because it isn't in any way 'green' and it's actually just the opposite of environmental friendliness. It stays because of the government subsidies - no congressman or Senator who wants re-elected will ever try to fight this, especially if he/she represents a agriculturally driven district or state. The US Hydraulic Empire is coming.... It's the largest manufactured crisis mankind has ever devised.
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And of course they have already found a way to tax the rain. Few people know this, but more and more property taxing entities (local included) now tax you for "impermeable surfaces" such as parking lots. The tax ostensibly goes to "wastewater infrastructure" and "groundwater conservation" but here's the catch - this tax isn't designed to get you to alter your behavior, hell no. Because using crushed concrete or crushed asphalt or any other permeable surface for parking lots is forbidden!
By the way this tax happens annually whether it rains or not, and regardless of how much precipitation there is - they tax you X amount per square foot of impermeable surface you have on your property! It's a beautiful racket! You cannot remove existing impermeable surfaces and replace them with permeable ones, and the rain tax is attached to the rest of your property tax! They're not even pretending they are trying to improve the groundwater problem by giving you incentive to change anything. They're simply, taxing the rain.
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Fracking isn't exactly a low water-consumption project either...
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That water is actually brine from the salt table, it is pumped out of the ground then treated with chemicals, then pumped back down to fracture the rock holding in the gas. It actually uses little water compared to ethanol production.
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And as if by magic, this appears in the local paper today:http://amarillo.com/news/latest-news...e-water-rights
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But did you see that commie 20 years ago, basically predicting what we're seeing now?
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Mmm. Isn't the principal opposition (well, one of them) to fracking that pumping a lot of salt water into places where it will seep into the water table is not necessarily a brilliant move?
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Good catch. Might the water wars be the next progressive cause after then climate change fizzles?
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Now a smart fella would set up catch basins and catch all of that rainwater which runs right off of the impermeable surfaces. No matter how. They get the water.
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The injection points for the frack water are well below the water table - much deeper in fact. Typically there's no trapped natural gas in the water table so, no reason to inject the fracking chemicals there.. Right now it is open in my mind though whether or not sinkholes result from mass dissolving of salt domes, and if fracking increases earthquakes in the areas where it's being done - primarily due to this dissolving of the salt domes and the fracturing of the bedrock. Thus far no connection has been shown...
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If the taxing entity is getting this water, this is one of the reasons they point to, for the tax. They have to pay to treat that water, see. Here where I live storm water runs off into playa lakes, it's not treated by the city.
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