by Pops » Fri 03 Apr 2015, 19:31:41
ROCKMAN wrote:Pops - "It is amusing that you don't get that "energy" isn't limited to diesel." Honestly I have no idea what you're talking about. The only ff used directly to drill a well is diesel.
Come on ROCK.
If the 6-8-10 mil or whatever it cost to frac a shale well is anything other than labor; if any of it is material or equipment that took energy to produce or deliver; then a fracked well takes more energy to make than one not fracked.
How hard is that?
Energy was used to produce that material and equipment. Whether you have a line item for that or not doesn't matter. Whether you consider that energy or not doesn't matter.
We all know the energy business isn't in business to make energy, it's in it for profit.
For that matter the consumer doesn't care about net energy either as long as they can afford to buy some—if the balance was 1:2 or 1:10 who cares? We've been wasting 70-80-90% of the FFs we've extracted up to this point so why would we start to care now?
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The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
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