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Musings: Backdoor Attack On Shale Development And Fracturing
by G. Allen Brooks
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Parks Paton Hoepfl & Brown
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The development of oil and gas shale has been a target of fossil fuel opponents and environmentalists for the past few years, or at least since natural gas evolved into a green-energy killing force due to its growing production and low price. The latest attack, which is actually a backdoor approach, was on the transportation safety record of the oil and gas extraction industry, and was launched in an extended article in The New York Times last week. The article was headlined, "Deadliest Danger Isn't at the Rig but on the Road" and was authored by Ian Urbina who had authored a series of anti-gas shale articles in the paper last summer. The article was placed prominently in the center of the front page, spanning three of the page's six columns, of last Tuesday's newspaper and above the fold (a location designed to ensure importance for people scanning the front page for articles determined by the editors to be of particular interest and importance).
The article begins by describing the death of Timothy Roth in the crash of a pickup truck carrying him and three other crew members returning home from a long work shift on a drilling rig in Ohio. The deadly accident occurred last July and involved the men leaving at 10 pm for a four-hour drive back to their employer's shop in West Virginia. This was not the first time Mr. Roth had been involved in a crash similar to this one in recent months. In both crashes, the driver of the pickup fell asleep at the wheel due to fatigue and ran into a pole or highway sign. Mr. Urbina slides from the story of the fatal accident into a comment that over the past decade the industry has experienced more than 300 deaths of oil and gas workers who were killed in highway crashes, which happens to be the largest cause of fatalities for the industry. The incidents of highway deaths is blamed in part on oilfield service company exemptions from highway safety rules that allow truck drivers to work longer hours than drivers in most other industries.
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Buster said:
Don't ya just want choke some greedy bastard?..You can bet though, had the prices of oil did the opposite of today and risen much..the pump prices would have went up so fast, it would have made your wallet spin..
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I blame the leftist liberal state. Regulations prevent real competition in the marketplace. That and the state fuel tax!
 
May 24, 2012, 12:50 p.m. EDT
[h=1]Oil bounces back, trades above $91 a barrel[/h][h=2]Natural gas holds to losses after supplies report[/h]
By Claudia Assis and Virginia Harrison, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Crude-oil futures rose Thursday, regaining ground after settling at their lowest level since October, amid a weaker dollar, positive U.S. macroeconomic reports and rising equities.
Crude for July delivery CLN2 +1.45% rose $1.21, or 1.3%, to $91.09 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, adding to earlier gains.
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nnuut said:
Reg 10% Moonshine running $3.10 a gallon at the station where I usually buy gas.
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Maybe if we can get more of that Tar Sand and Shale oil from the Dakotas and Wyoming, etc....our gas would not have to be mixed with that ethanoil crap..

E10 here still $3.28
 
A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.
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Well, there's a very simple answer.
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Nobody bothered to check the oil. ~~~
We just didn't know we were getting low.
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The reason for that is purely geographical.
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Our OIL is located in:
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ALASKA
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California
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Coastal Florida
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Coastal Louisiana
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Coastal Alabama
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Coastal Mississippi
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Coastal Texas
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North Dakota
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Wyoming
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Colorado
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Kansas
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Oklahoma
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Pennsylvania
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And
Texas
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Our dipsticks are located in Washington DC
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Any Questions?
NO? Didn't think So.
 
May 28, 2012, 6:22 a.m. EDT
Oil futures extend gains in electronic trading

By Sarah Turner and Sara Sjolin, MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Crude-oil futures rose more than 1% in electronic trading Monday, after weekend killings in a Syrian government attack raised the temperature in the Middle East and the dollar traded lower.
Oil for July delivery CLN2 +1.27% rose 99 cents, or 1.1%, to $91.85 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Oil futures extend gains in electronic trading - Futures Movers - MarketWatch
 
Dollar bouncing UP, at this moment!

U.S. Dollar Index (DXY), DXY Index Quote - (NYE) DXY, U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) Index Price
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