Fracking Oil

Fracking is the process of drilling 10,000 feet into the earth and then drilling sidewise to reach a gas/oil pocket. To release the gas and oil, wate and chemicals are forced into the well. The water/chemical combination is about 95 to 99% water and the rest chemicals. The process could save the United States from $5 or $10 gasoline at the pump. However, the environmentalist/leftist groups are attacking fracking. First they argue that the chenmicals leach into the water aquifer poisening the water. The problem with this argument is that the water aquifer is 500 feet below the surface. It would be impossible for those chemicals to leach upward through 9500 feet of solid rock to reach the water.

In one of my recent executive MBA classes, a student mentioned that his child watched a video in school showing how bad fracking was; water from taps could be ilt on fire. Now get this. The teacher was showing this scary video to her class of young kids. They can't help but grow up thinking that fracking is something that should be banned. But, there are water tables around the country that can be lit on fire due to methane gas, something occurring naturally. It is due to chemicals used in the fracking process.

Surely the producers of this DVD knew the facts and not only refused to report them but chose to lie about them. Why? I believe it is part of the agenda of government growth. What is the easiest way to enlarge government? To create a crisis. As Rom Emanuel said "You don't want to waste a crisis."