Posted on 04/14/2014 12:18:05 PM PDT by topher
However, nuclear power plants are very expensive to build.
There is a new method of nuclear technology, but they are much smaller and very inexpensive (the name escapes me).
“Someone said desalination well WF TX is like 8 to ten hrs to the coast and you’d have to truck it!.”
Pipeline. One in for oil and one out for water.
“Get people to rip out the pretty green laws that work on the East Coast but are water hogs in a dry area formerly known as the Great Desert, we’d have margin. Stop planting all these trees to look like home and mimic Arizona’s xeriscaping, and you have more water for people. Limiting the installation of swimming pools would help.”
Your answer is wrong. You correctly list the ways environmentalists have artificially created a shortage. Then you begin to list ways that people must be forced to critically change their life to comply with the shortage they create.
That’s like fighting gang drive by shootings by requiring new houses to install bullet proof windows. You aren’t addressing the actual problem.
That energy would be better spent making the supply what is should be.
Texas doesn’t need more dictatorial rules on how people can live, it needs more freedom.
All it takes is money.
Most folks are not willing to pay oil prices for water.
One could argue Defense spending is a Government Subsidy that provides jobs. But research from DoD has brought many new technologies.
If the government provides money for just building the plants, and the communities must maintain and provide energy, then that is something.
Then there was how the Army Corps of Engineers is involved in many projects on the Mississippi River (Levees and flood control). Is that a government subsidy? Did not the Federal Government spend tons of dollars after Hurricane Katrina to fix things?
But there are examples where the government does things such as the Army Corps of Engineers to provide engineering solutions.
Of course, as in the case of New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers is not always on the ball, as the flooding from Hurricane Katrina showed.
But maybe that was more a Louisiana/New Orleans problem than an Army Corps of Engineers.
After Hurricane Katrina, there were big bucks spent on fixing levees and flood control by the federal government.
Ah yes,, watching children running through the colored gravel in their little bare feet.
You pay his water bill? If you’d have done that to me, id have added another slip and slide that afternoon, just to “set you straight”.
Yes, that’s why people want lawns: a safe place for their children to play. There’s nothing fun about picking embedded gravel out of a crying child’s knees and hands.
Well as long a “government” inspectors of the quality of the FBI, SEC, BATFE, EPA, etc. are used, why not? Of course, I don’t live in Ubbock (or otherwise referred to as Lubbock).
700,000 gallons is about 450,000 flushes with 1.5 gal toilets. consider how many flushes a person does a day at home and work, about 10-15 roughly. that’s about 30-45,000 peoples’ flushes for a day.
not as much as you’d think but people drink far less water from tap than flush or do laudry with. far more usage is non-drinking - flushing, laundry, showering, cleaning.
All water has likely flowed through the digestive tract of numerous disgusting creatures at some point in the hydrologic cycle. Does that make you swear off water?
I've been to the sewage treatment plant of my small college town and the water fountain water emitted the exact final product of that plant. Some of the best water you'll find; much cleaner and more wholesome that what comes out of most taps, after traveling through miles of disgusting city water lines.
“I’ll stick to Diet-Pepsi, thank you very much.”
And you think the water for your Pepsi comes from pure Rocky Mountain springs? Bwahahahaha!
Too many fire ants in Texas to go running through the grass in your little bare feet.
In Australia the front yards were gravel, the back yards were concrete. My son in law loves it.
When they lived in the Midwestern US he had a 4 acre yard and spent the whole weekend mowing it. Grass is way overrated.
Oh so you were born an Obbit. I have been to Obbs. I should say I have zipped through Obbs, didn’t stop.
What’s so bad about this? Ten million dogs can’t be wrong,can they?
That’s around Dumas I’m thinking!
Ha haa, I got a young ‘un bout to gradjeate from Tech in May. So that country will be on my horizon soon!
Nature does know how to purify this...
I am not suggesting that government should have no spending. Defense spending, flood control of a multi-state river basin are appropriate functions for the federal government.
Building local plants serving single areas, if power, water or any other function, is not the role of the Federal Government.
For example, this Spring, the Mississippi River could flood from all snows this Winter/Spring (there was a major snow storm yesterday in the Midwest).
I would approve of spending to have a mechanism to pump money away from something that is flooding to an area that is suffering from drought.
And this would be Interstate.
However, such a project possibly could be expensive...
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