Posted on 02/09/2014 4:53:37 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
At a gas field in cetral Arkansas. Gas drilling was stopped for decades because of an incident back in the 1920s.
A gas company was drilling on a farm and hit gas. The well suddenly ignited and there was a column of FIRE coming out of the ground!
All those backwoods hillbillies just knew the gas company had drilled into HELL and the Devil was coming out to get them!
When the well was finally plugged, the company could not get a lease to drill anywhere in the area till the 1990s.
Arkansas is the anus of the United States, excreting the second worst president yet to occupy our White House.
***Arkansas is the anus of the United States, excreting the second worst president yet to occupy our White House.***
Close to the truth fifty years ago. Now Walmart money has attracted the best and brightest from across the USA so the NW Corner of the state is not bad. The rest...?
As for the second worst president, I had a chance to rectify that back in 1969 but didn’t. I was to meet a girl at the U of A in Fayetteville at her dorm. I sat and sat.
On Dickson Street, there was an anti-war demonstration in which a naked guy climbed a tree. That naked fool was a young Bill Clinton (A man I worked with years later interviewed him for a news story).
If I had foresight, I would walked down there, grabbed a red Arkansaw rock and knocked him out of that tree and saved the future USA from him.
The girl I waited on never showed.
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For those who want to see a 6 minute video showing how horizontal drilling and fracking is done, Northern Gas and Oil has done a great one.
It includes a visual piece on how fresh water aquifers are protected from contamination.
http://www.northernoil.com/drilling-video
Knowledge is power, keep the link and pass it on.
There is a lot of lead in Arkansas. I wonder if they filter their water. It’s a beautiful state, though.
We're talking about fracking and the gas industry and we're reaping some rewards.
Check with me in a year or so to see if I made a bad decision ... they paid me 13, 3something at the signing a year and a half ago and I just posted my check
Looks to be about 13 or 14 hunnert a month.
Boy ... was I stupid ... what was I THINKING !!!?
very good video ... I’m retired sand can driver.
Obama’s crowd wants to cripple people with their “liberating” Obamacare-gives-you-freedom-to-quit-your-job poison.
Hear, hear! Note, however, that that is a distinctly American attitude.In American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United, John Harmon McElroy notes that there were four main colonial powers in America, and each of them found different things and wanted to do different things:The conclusion is that Americans respect any honest work. If you reflect on English costume drama, you will realize that we didn't get that attitude from England - where the emphasis was on who you were rather than what you did - but in the American melieu where people who were respected because they were useful, and were respected for the caluses on their hands.
- Spain found bronze-age civilization, and conquered them in a conventional manner as they would have liked to have done in Europe, especially England. Since they found a going concern their only interest was in dominating and exploiting it, rather than creating it. So the only people they sent to their colonies were soldiers and gentlemen to be in charge. No Spanish peons need apply.
- France found in Canada not a going bronze-age civilization but a stone age one. But like Spain, France's primary motivation was control - of navigation of the St. Lawrence River - and trade with the natives. So there was need of traders, but mostly of gentlemen and soldiers to control. Very few peons, even French ones and certainly none other, were needed.
- Portugal found stone age peoples in Brazil. In order to exploit Brazil they sent over workers - in the form of African slaves. Plus of course, gentlemen to control the operation.
- England (it wasn't Great Britain until later) found in the portion of North America which it was able to claim nothing but stone-age people and forests. The land was rich and had tremendous agricultural potential but wasn't farmland until it had been laboriously cleared of trees and vines. The English colonists found that gentlemen were pretty useless; what the situation cried out for was farmers. So England sent over poor people - some, including some of my ancestors, came from Lutheran Germany - and so the American polity was dominated by practical people (even if they often had religious motivations for wanting to come, still they learned that the situation required diligent work).
I had spent a lot of time in the past 2 years working between Monahans and Lovington. Railroad work. Grueling... but my God Hobbs is booming like nothing I have seen in my whole life... The Domino’s in Hobbs was advertising for delivery drivers at $16/hr. The McDonald’s in Monahans was about the same... to start.
there’s not much that’s dumber than W. PA.
I am laughing. Hard. Do I need really need to say it?
I’m not so sure you know jack shit. I have a gas well on my farm.
I’ll assume you are referring to the multiple posts; I assure you that I clicked on “post” once. Since I’ve seen this happen to others in here also, I think it must be some sort of glitch with the internet connection. Go ahead and laugh if it makes you feel better.
Are they bringing the old T&NM back to life? The last time I was in Hobbs, the railroad was two streaks of rust buried in the dirt.
Recommend the Cattle Baron...
Or, judgeing from your reply ... has the local gummint interfered with payment?
Otherwise, your reply makes no sense to me ... I get 19%
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