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LookieNoNookie -> RE: Fracking is perfectly safe.... (3/31/2014 5:14:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux
Lets see, shall we?
16 million vehicle sales per year. Average weight 4000 lbs. 64 billion lbs. 75% of that is recylced. 16 billion lbs therefor to the trash heap.
Note that this excludes any manufacturing waste.
Now, in the US we have 240 million cars on the road. Averaging cars and truck MPg.. it comes out right around 20mpg. We'll ignore commercial transportation to make it more favorable to you.
Per capita thats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_of_transport
330 million people times the average of 15000 miles per year divided by 20 mpg call it 250 billion gallons of gasoline.
The EPA has ruled that CO2 is a pollutant of course.. so one gallon of gasoline. call it 6lbs per gallon (we'll round down) 1.6 trillion pounds of waste.
Ignoring replaceables like tires, oil, windshield wipers.
On to fracking.
Lets presume that each well uses 1,000,000 gallons of water. Thats on the high side. Lets assume no recycling occurs although the industry average is 20%.
Each well injects .5% in fracking chemicals, or 5,0000 gallons of fracking chemicals. Methanol is the most common fracking fluid, and its density is about that of water, so we will round it to 7.5 lbs / gal. Call it 40,000 lbs.
There are at last count roughly 35000 wells. So call it 1.5 billion lbs of polutants per year.
Or less than 10% of just the dumped weight of automobiles, per year. And .1% of the aggregate total.
So I repeat. If you really want to go after pollution - why don't you go after automobiles?
Wouldn't that mean that the average citizen would have to curtail driving....instead of curtailing bitching about shit that was factually unrelated to the topic?
I think that would require a substantial amount of integrity given to the subject matter that is generally not a predicate to the goal at hand.
(I think you're asking for quite a bit here bucko).
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