"Law of tonnage?" Redvert, do you drive your car off the highway when a semi truck approaches? Do you think a Cruze should bail out when an Escalade comes buy, or motorcycles should leave when a Mini drives down the road?
Sorry, there is no law of tonnage on the highway. But there is a law saying bicycles are vehicles, and bicyclists have all the rights of any other vehicle operator.
So obey the law. If there isn't room to pass a bike safely, wait a few seconds until there is room. You're not going to save the free world by hurrying and being rude.
As usual, almost all the facts indicate almost no likelihood of problems if fracking is done properly. And as usual, all the objectors use piles of hypothetical "what ifs" to paint dire pictures of their fantasies.
None of us would bathe in undiluted fracking fluid, any more than we'd bathe in gasoline; but that doesn't mean frack fluid should never be used. Well contamination from horizontal fracking has been tremendously rare, and is nowhere near as likely as from the hundreds and hundreds of vertical fracked wells already operating for decades.
And what if some fracking fluid escaped in a surface spill? In reality, it would be much less harmful than the 2000 gallons of gasoline spilled at I-680. Yet the anti-fracking crowd is happy to drive to protests, using gasoline and risking their own spills, then drive back to their gas-heated homes, or their homes heated with coal-generated electricity, which is far worse. Nobody picketed at I-680 and called for an end to driving!
The natural gas now being used comes mostly from old vertical wells. Gasoline is now transported in all our watersheds, despite the obvious spill risks. Coal is continually polluting our air and adding far more than gas to climate change. When the protesters give up all their use of fossil fuels, I'll take them seriously.
Wait! Hazardous chemicals spilled? Twice in a few years??
So why haven't Bobby Hagan and Freaky Ray Biersdorfer been calling for ALL trucking to be stopped immediately? They're doing that for all fracking, based on just the POSSIBILITY of spills and pollution!
Look, anti-frackers, it's time for you to do your part. Just stop using fossil fuels, dudes, and nobody will have to drill for natural gas!
What? You haven't given up your car? You still heat your house? You still use electricity? You haven't even shut down your *#@! computer? And you want to continue fueling those luxuries by the MORE environmentally dangerous things like strip-mined coal and Saudi oil?
Todd Franko's still operating under the belief that public employees should work for peanuts. If you're talking about people picking up litter, maybe so. But if you want competent engineers designing and maintaining our infrastructure, or competent lawyers working to prosecute our criminals, that doesn't wash. These people get really difficult college degrees and professional certification to just qualify for the jobs. If they're not paid enough, they'll leave. Their replacements won't be as competent.
Apparently the newspaper business is different. Apparently editors and reporters will do brilliant work and stay on the job forever, in Franko's opinion, even if their salaries don't keep up with competitors' offers.
But in a way, he could be right. When students flunk out of engineering or law majors, they transfer into journalism. But journalism majors never flunk INTO engineering or law!
Looks like too many people slept through science class!
* An injection well is NOT a fracking well. Fracking doesn't cause earthquakes. * A 3.1 earthquake is NOT going to kill anyone. Small quakes prevent big ones. * Hagan is not "becoming a semi expert" on anything but bloviating. The man's got no interest in anything but which way the ultra-liberal winds are blowing. I'm a Democrat who wishes he'd stick to driving trains.
Has anyone checked if the anti-fracking hysteria is funded by the coal companies? The more natural gas we get safely out of the shale, the less they make by strip mining!
2-county bicycle map to be ready for summer test ride
"Law of tonnage?" Redvert, do you drive your car off the highway when a semi truck approaches? Do you think a Cruze should bail out when an Escalade comes buy, or motorcycles should leave when a Mini drives down the road?
Sorry, there is no law of tonnage on the highway. But there is a law saying bicycles are vehicles, and bicyclists have all the rights of any other vehicle operator.
So obey the law. If there isn't room to pass a bike safely, wait a few seconds until there is room. You're not going to save the free world by hurrying and being rude.
Don't let arrogance make you stupid.
May 14, 2012 at 4:28 p.m. permalink suggest removal
RobX
As usual, almost all the facts indicate almost no likelihood of problems if fracking is done properly. And as usual, all the objectors use piles of hypothetical "what ifs" to paint dire pictures of their fantasies.
None of us would bathe in undiluted fracking fluid, any more than we'd bathe in gasoline; but that doesn't mean frack fluid should never be used. Well contamination from horizontal fracking has been tremendously rare, and is nowhere near as likely as from the hundreds and hundreds of vertical fracked wells already operating for decades.
And what if some fracking fluid escaped in a surface spill? In reality, it would be much less harmful than the 2000 gallons of gasoline spilled at I-680. Yet the anti-fracking crowd is happy to drive to protests, using gasoline and risking their own spills, then drive back to their gas-heated homes, or their homes heated with coal-generated electricity, which is far worse. Nobody picketed at I-680 and called for an end to driving!
The natural gas now being used comes mostly from old vertical wells. Gasoline is now transported in all our watersheds, despite the obvious spill risks. Coal is continually polluting our air and adding far more than gas to climate change. When the protesters give up all their use of fossil fuels, I'll take them seriously.
February 17, 2012 at 11:32 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Valley safety forces face fuel spill, fire, crashes
Wait! Hazardous chemicals spilled? Twice in a few years??
So why haven't Bobby Hagan and Freaky Ray Biersdorfer been calling for ALL trucking to be stopped immediately? They're doing that for all fracking, based on just the POSSIBILITY of spills and pollution!
February 15, 2012 at 11:25 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Vindy swapping around some content
You cut Doonesbury but kept Mary Worth, Mark Trail, Rex Morgan and Judge Parker???
Obviously, quality didn't rank high in your decision matrix.
February 10, 2012 at 4:29 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Second Poland cemetery approached about drilling leases
Seems to me the money will be guaranteed by contract, no? If so, it will be true.
"Deal with the devil"? As usual, more superstition from the anti-fracking crowd.
February 7, 2012 at 10:44 a.m. permalink suggest removal
3 state agencies seek to sink brine-treatment plant in Warren
Look, anti-frackers, it's time for you to do your part. Just stop using fossil fuels, dudes, and nobody will have to drill for natural gas!
What? You haven't given up your car? You still heat your house? You still use electricity? You haven't even shut down your *#@! computer? And you want to continue fueling those luxuries by the MORE environmentally dangerous things like strip-mined coal and Saudi oil?
Hypocrites.
January 25, 2012 at 12:55 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Marsico bows out; timing is perfect
Todd Franko's still operating under the belief that public employees should work for peanuts. If you're talking about people picking up litter, maybe so. But if you want competent engineers designing and maintaining our infrastructure, or competent lawyers working to prosecute our criminals, that doesn't wash. These people get really difficult college degrees and professional certification to just qualify for the jobs. If they're not paid enough, they'll leave. Their replacements won't be as competent.
Apparently the newspaper business is different. Apparently editors and reporters will do brilliant work and stay on the job forever, in Franko's opinion, even if their salaries don't keep up with competitors' offers.
But in a way, he could be right. When students flunk out of engineering or law majors, they transfer into journalism. But journalism majors never flunk INTO engineering or law!
January 15, 2012 at 4:23 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Another Ohio community rocked by quakes
Looks like too many people slept through science class!
* An injection well is NOT a fracking well. Fracking doesn't cause earthquakes.
* A 3.1 earthquake is NOT going to kill anyone. Small quakes prevent big ones.
* Hagan is not "becoming a semi expert" on anything but bloviating. The man's got no interest in anything but which way the ultra-liberal winds are blowing. I'm a Democrat who wishes he'd stick to driving trains.
Has anyone checked if the anti-fracking hysteria is funded by the coal companies? The more natural gas we get safely out of the shale, the less they make by strip mining!
January 15, 2012 at 10:59 a.m. permalink suggest removal