The Ogallala Aquifer that runs through eight states is quickly running dry. It supplies water to the American Breadbasket of the Great Plains, which is an agricultural region that feeds much of the world.
“We’re headed for a brick wall at 100 miles per hour,” states James Mahan, a plant physiologist at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service lab in Lubbock, TX.
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ECONOMIC SPARK
Simple plan; Lower taxes (ALL taxes), REPEAL NObama care (after Nov. elections), business’s HATE uncertainty, since budgets are normally projected 5-10 years hence, they need CERTAINTY in order to invest, hire, expand etc, exploit, in a responsible way, ALL carbon based fuels that lie under our feet. Build/DOUBLE our refinery capacity, this will OFF SET any man-made/mother nature calamity that shuts down refineries thus maintaining supply. With the increase in supply (economics 101) the price of said oil (on the world market) will drop, this will AFFECT those countries who are not friendly with the US and/or are run by despots/tyrants/terrorist WHOSE NUMBER 1 commodity is OIL! This lowering of price will negatively affect them, this will NOT allow them to build up their military/assets/platforms which allows them to PROJECT both power AND spread their way of life around the globe. (UKRAINE/Eastern Europe anyone?) This means AMERICA will be the Super Power it once was and can project/protect itself and its allies because the LOWERING of the cost of ENERGY will lower the costs of ALL GOODS and services.
GET THE CORN OUT of our gas tanks!! This not only causes LOWER MPG, but, burning MORE fuel creates MORE pollution. Corn is the most basic of food staples, once the SUBSIDIES cease and the demand goes down, ALL the crops that were clear cut to make way for said corn will get replanted again, thus lowering the costs of crops/commodity market traded goods. Also, this corn will be put back into the mouths of live-stock and STARVING people in 3rd world countries. The cost of beef/poultry/pork will ALSO drop precipitously. (notice the sky high cost of beef in the last year?) This also includes the ludicrous amount of water used to make ethanol (1000 gallons to make 20 gallons). Once North American carbon based supplies decrease the need of Middle East oil, the country will save 100’s of billions per year in transportation and military protection cost’s. Lastly, once this all comes to fruition, the economy will “effortlessly” start/be chugging along, which lifts stock markets, increases the tax base, thus increasing taxes paid to the “givernment” (I know scary thought) and freeing up “trillions” that are on the side lines that want to get a “reasonable amount of return in a reasonable amount of time.” Thus starts the robust economic cycle, that is self-reliant and self-sustaining. THIS creates the “environment” for companies to do more hiring (increasing tax base), expansion and mergers and acquisitions (increasing efficiency). The private sector CREATES, the public/givernment sector TAKES.
so obummer has another way to push his agendas. find where he cut off the water and reopen it. everything that is happening obummer is making it happen
Let it rain in san diego…
I have a really huge aquifer under my property(seriously) had it tested and it’s like pure as can be although I have not been using it as of yet I believe I may tap into it next year and start using it
Research Corporate water. This article mentions one rich man selling the water, which I think is wrong, but only a small part of the problem. Corporations make billions selling and polluting our fresh water, and lobby government to take water rights away from the people. It’s all about power and money.
Fracking is one of the main causes and it needs to stop.Up to 200,000 gallons of water per day is what one fracking site consumes,and then that water can’t be reused.
do not believe that
Please save the scare tactics for the illegals. Water management in the U S is a disaster thanks to the EPA get your facts straight. Dumping fresh water millions of gallon in CA in favor of a an endangered mini bait fish is a crime. Worst than pollution. When you know what your talking about get back to me.
Massive corporate agriculture uses more resources than traditional farming and yield no more nutrition. The over use of pesticides made necessary by GMO crops, use more water and create a mono-farming situation where soil is depleted at a rapid rate. This entire ‘experiment’ of massive corporate farming has utterly FAILED just as all big government backed/supported programs do; but only after massive damages have been perpetrated; they laugh all the way to their banks!
And the Politically motivated production of Ethanol, way above the recommended level as a gasoline additive, “burns” up a huge amount of water in processing.