An interesting study a couple years ago showed that New York City TAP water was purer, and tasted better, than any brand of bottled water! BTW, a good deal of bottled water IS just expensive tap.
And yes, I DO realize the real issue is fracking contaminating drinking water aquifers, and polluting other resources as well. It’s been used safely, and UNsafely, for decades in different areas. Geology and the fluids used, and care in drilling and maintaining DOES make a difference, but the vast majority of oil/gas companies just say, “go for it, profit is god!”, and THAT is the problem of letting those companies write, or rather CONTINUE TO WRITE, the regulations.
Dasani(CocaCola) and Aquafina(Pepsi), which draws this whole cartoon into question. If we lose our tap water, they lose their profits. On a different note: If you think NY water is nice, I dare you to try the tap water in the Rockies.
Yes, most of it is tap water, highly filtered tap water. Filtering, packaging, shipping and store overhead add to the price of each bottle. It is for convenience, we pay for it.
Any time there is a public policy “controversy”, follow the money, who profits and who loses. In Russia and the Russian Federation, they are fracking with no restrictions and no public scrutiny, they have millions of metric tonnes of natural gas they want to sell to the rest of the world, especially to Europe, where thanks to that scam artist Josh Fox and his essentially dishonest movie Gasland, several nations have ignored the science and made fracking illegal, because, you know, it’s bad, if it wasn’t bad would so many of their citizens have protested against it? Because all scientific decisions should be subject to popular opinion. /sarc
Yes, industry under Reagan, and the Bush boys, was given full freedom to write, and re-write regulations in favor of corporations. The CFRs are way to full of examples, but just check title 31 for offshore drilling, modified in 2007 and making BP “innocent”.
Fracking HAS been done safely in the past few decades, but it has also been used in other areas, poisoning thousands of acres of rangeland, and poisoning many, many miles of streams, for decades. A cute little nuclear trial in Idaho also left one gas reservoir a tad contaminated, and it can’t be used for a few million years.
Republian followers don’t want to HEAR the truth, their leaders won’t speak the truth, and the general public has been blind.
mdavis only ever has one point to get across: that whatever he disagrees with is moronic. He rarely offers any other insight. To expect much more from him is an exercise in futility.
Dtroutma almost 11 years ago
An interesting study a couple years ago showed that New York City TAP water was purer, and tasted better, than any brand of bottled water! BTW, a good deal of bottled water IS just expensive tap.
Dtroutma almost 11 years ago
And yes, I DO realize the real issue is fracking contaminating drinking water aquifers, and polluting other resources as well. It’s been used safely, and UNsafely, for decades in different areas. Geology and the fluids used, and care in drilling and maintaining DOES make a difference, but the vast majority of oil/gas companies just say, “go for it, profit is god!”, and THAT is the problem of letting those companies write, or rather CONTINUE TO WRITE, the regulations.
edclectic almost 11 years ago
DILLIGAF: Do I Look Like I Give A Frack?
Don Winchester Premium Member almost 11 years ago
fracknation.com
yusodum almost 11 years ago
Dasani(CocaCola) and Aquafina(Pepsi), which draws this whole cartoon into question. If we lose our tap water, they lose their profits. On a different note: If you think NY water is nice, I dare you to try the tap water in the Rockies.
cjr53 almost 11 years ago
Yes, most of it is tap water, highly filtered tap water. Filtering, packaging, shipping and store overhead add to the price of each bottle. It is for convenience, we pay for it.
Liam Burns almost 11 years ago
Any time there is a public policy “controversy”, follow the money, who profits and who loses. In Russia and the Russian Federation, they are fracking with no restrictions and no public scrutiny, they have millions of metric tonnes of natural gas they want to sell to the rest of the world, especially to Europe, where thanks to that scam artist Josh Fox and his essentially dishonest movie Gasland, several nations have ignored the science and made fracking illegal, because, you know, it’s bad, if it wasn’t bad would so many of their citizens have protested against it? Because all scientific decisions should be subject to popular opinion. /sarc
Hawthorne almost 11 years ago
Hawthorne said, less than a minute ago
@TheTrustedMechanic
Because it’s not so much a spell checker as a ‘we’-know-better-than-you-do-what-you-want-to-say toy.
We need an off switch … I don’t use my cell phone for text. It’s too infuriating.
Dtroutma almost 11 years ago
Yes, industry under Reagan, and the Bush boys, was given full freedom to write, and re-write regulations in favor of corporations. The CFRs are way to full of examples, but just check title 31 for offshore drilling, modified in 2007 and making BP “innocent”.
Fracking HAS been done safely in the past few decades, but it has also been used in other areas, poisoning thousands of acres of rangeland, and poisoning many, many miles of streams, for decades. A cute little nuclear trial in Idaho also left one gas reservoir a tad contaminated, and it can’t be used for a few million years.
Republian followers don’t want to HEAR the truth, their leaders won’t speak the truth, and the general public has been blind.
OmqR-IV.0 almost 11 years ago
mdavis only ever has one point to get across: that whatever he disagrees with is moronic. He rarely offers any other insight. To expect much more from him is an exercise in futility.