Another goofy day in Road Rage Mad Fort Worth. Up before the crack of dawn, swimming at day break. Computer burnout continued over from yesterday.I am finding myself learning way more about Texas than I think is healthy. My Regions of Texas Project is wearing me out. I'm learning all sorts of odd things. Like little Midland, Texas is nicknamed "The Tall City" I assume by people who have never seen a tall city. Midland used to brag that their 22 story Wilco Building was the tallest building between Fort Worth and Phoenix. That's like saying that some building in Spokane is the tallest between Seattle and Chicago. Or so it would seem to me.
And then I got one of the more absurd comments in a long time, from what I assume to be either a know-it-all Texan or a Chesapeake Energy shill operating out of Oklahoma City. This comment was in regards to yesterday's blogging about today's EPA meeting at D/FW Airport regarding pollution from cement kilns.
Anonymous said.......
Dude, Seriously, you think that a drill rig that uses 1000 gallons of diesel fuel per day to drill a well is "pumping" out more fumes than all the cars and trucks in the DFW area in one day - You are getting some seriously wrong information. There are over 1 million cars in DFW and all of them are using 1 gallon per day bud... and there are only 72 rigs drilling in Texas as of today. Go ahead and drive your car to a meeting about pollution... That a joke. you are the problem - not the solution.
Apparently the Anonymous dude does not pay a lot of attention to the news. As in last week it was widely reported that Dr. Al Armendariz was right about the Barnett Shale drilling operations contribution to North Texas air pollution.
With the State of Texas agreeing.
As in "State environmental officials say that an SMU researcher (Al Armendariz) was correct: Gas drilling in the Barnett Shale contributes about as much air pollution to the Dallas-Fort Worth area as car and truck traffic."
I'm guessing that Anonymous Dude is one of those Texas Road Ragers that have us being America's second most mad drivers.
I'm hitting the road in a bit, to head north. It being Wednesday I'm likely going to go to Sprouts Farmers Market while I'm out dodging Road Ragers.
I believe and I was always told that they called Midland the "Tall City" because it was 5 miles from Odessa.
ReplyDeleteEverything you hear about Midland and/or Odessa is a comparison between the two cities. Thus Midland is the "Tall City" and Odessa is the "Short City" although I never heard anyone call Odessa that.
Midland is also called, "The White Collar City" which implies that Odessa is "The Blue Collar City"...
Dude is pretty funny. Only 72 rigs drilling in Texas...Yep, he's a shill.
ReplyDeleteThere are to be 1,465 more wells drilled in the state of Texas for the year 2009 by a total of 318 rigs...source Baker Hughes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing the drilling research Cheap Tricks Dudette.
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