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SARose

(858 posts) Thu Aug 15, 2024, 09:01 AM Aug 2024

Donald Trump's promise to "drill, baby, drill" probably won't change much -- least of all in Texas

BY CARLOS NOGUERAS RAMOS
AUG. 15, 2024

ODESSA — Former President Donald Trump has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” on Day One of his next administration. He wants, as his website says, for the U.S. to be “the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!”

It already is — thanks to Texas.

Earlier this year, the state’s leading oil and gas association reported that Texas supplied 42% of the nation’s oil in 2023. Texas broke records last year when operators drilled nearly 2 billion barrels of oil and 12 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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No other country comes close to producing the amount of oil the United States does.

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Yeah Texas! Now we have earthquakes and possibly contaminated the Ogallala Aquifer.

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Donald Trump's promise to "drill, baby, drill" probably won't change much -- least of all in Texas (Original Post) SARose Aug 2024 OP

Even though I don't live there duncang Aug 2024 #1

Scary isn't it? SARose Aug 2024 #2

duncang

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1. Even though I don't live there

Reply to SARose (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:54 AM

Aug 2024

I worry about the aquifer also. With all the fractures they make while trying to get the oil out and then injecting waste I’m sure if it already hasn’t happened it will.

SARose

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2. Scary isn't it?

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Thu Aug 15, 2024, 03:04 PM

Aug 2024

I am fourth generation oil field trash. My grandfather and great grandfather were both wildcat drillers. The difference is they respected nature and worked hard to mitigate damage from crude spills.

They instilled in their grandchildren a love of hiking, fishing, hunting and care of ranch land and animals.

I think they would be horrified to see what we have done to our good Earth.

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