Gasland Part II
 

Just finished this new documentary on HBO. Not much hope for the human race I'm afraid. Greed seems to be winning. Depress @ss hell!!

One line from the movie, might be paraphrasing. "Just wait until people are paying as much for water as oil and gas!"






Barney

Haven't watched it yet but plan to. Sounds bad when you can light your tap/well water on fire. You realize that you'll be branded a "chicken little" for even questioning the beneficence of the gas/oil lobby...:rolleyes:

As Roosevelt said, "I welcome their hatred!"

I never cared much what other people care about me. If I did I never would of had long hair since in 1968. All one needs to know is clean water is needed to live. We can survive without fossil fuels.

But the human race still deep down thinks it can always move to greener pastures like in the past.

I just find it had to believe with all the guns in this country no one has been shot at yet.




Barney

When was the last time you bought a bottle of water?:)

I buy it all of the time, provided it's been run through the hops first.

Chas

Three days ago. 3/4 gallon bottles 10 for $10.

Way cheaper than gasoline.

Dave

Lucky for me my tap water is very good! I fill up old Grolsch pop top's for my bottled water. Keep them in the fridge so I will always have a cold one handy. Would hate to have to pay 1K+ a month for bottled water like some of the people in the film had to.



Barney

1K+ per month for bottled water?

My bullshit detector is going off.

Chas

No for his water buffalo's to be filled!

The guy lives in Texas and has to buy ALL OF HIS WATER!. Along with all of his neighbors have to buy water too. I have no idea what water cost in Texas do you?

Now he did have a pool and a waterfall. It was a nice home BTW in a nice neighborhood. The home owner did mention that his whirlpool cost $200 to fill now so it stays empty.

Barney

Around 1986 I lived near Red Rock, TX. As we basically lived in an oil field, and were furnished with a private well, the water was horrible. The sulphur smell would knock a buzzard off a shit wagon, and it was so slick that you could barely stand up in a bathtub. I filled an Igloo with our drinking water up in town, as there was a big private water supply business down there. No one ever complained about me filling up the Igloo.

Then we moved to Weir, where we had access to the private water system. It was more like $20 per month.

A lot of places have lousy water. And that part of Texas had as vile as water as I've ever experienced. I imagine it was always like that. After surveying Texas, I don't see how even a rattlesnake could make a living in a great portion of it.

It makes Missouri look like the Garden of Eden.

Chas

Hey, you slid the pool & waterfall in after the fact. I suppose he irrigates his lawn, otherwise he wouldn't have one.

My advice to him is, if you want to play, to have to pay. I don't have a great deal of sympathy for some crybaby with a cement pond bitching about how much water costs.

Much less bitching about how we're all gonna run out of water.

Chas

Sorry about sliding it in late. Remembered it after the initial posting. But the guy built his home before the drilling started. Seems out West property owners don't own mineral rights. Just because someone can afford a very nice home with a pool and waterfall what bearing does that have on a company contaminating a well? Then getting away with it!

Forcing a home owner to but water by the truck load when they had a sweet water well before.


Barney

Then the homes in PA that the state was making the drilling company build a nine mile pipe line for city water. Then surprise surprise a deal is struck by the lawyers just to have the company buy them out. Seems it was a lot cheaper forcing family's off their now contaminated land.


Barney

It's difficult to formulate a response whenever you're fed additional information after the fact.

But a sweet water well in Texas??? Like I said, I still don't see how a rattlesnake could make a living down there, and it's the only place where I've caught dysentery.

Never eat in a Mexican mom & pop two miles from the border. In the middle of nowhere.

Chas

When I was a young man I got dysentery on my honeymoon. Took six months for me to recuperate. I dropped to 167 pounds! (210 is about perfect for me)

Did your hemorrhoids resemble a bloody gravel pile???

Mine did!!!

Chas

Sounds like you found the right place to buy water.

http://money.howstuffworks.com/bling-water1.htm

http://www.slashfood.com/2006/05/18/...more-than-gas/

http://jameshurt.com/real-estate-tip...d-water-usage/

And it goes on.

Any connection seen?

Big Oil buying up water rights.......


http://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2009/...hts-to-gu.html

http://coloradoindependent.com/24667...hts-study-says

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...d-s-water.html

Pollute the water then make the good water left yours........



Barney

Surprise,surprise, you did not honestly believe we individuals have any rights when som big corporation wants whatever it is we have that interest them did you?

Not since Citizens United.


Barney