That’s the truth. A previous employer of mine’ExpressJet’used to fly full planes out to these fracker towns. Over a couple years these towns built roads, neighborhoods, schools, and commercial infrastructure off the back of high oil profits. Once they were built oil prices returned to normal, and these towns went dormant. Williston,ND, and Dickerson,ND just to name a couple. It was the Wild West up there, tons of construction dudes, and ‘ladies of the night’ working the late shift to make them happy. Skeleton crews were left behind to keep the massive fracking infrastructure operational.

You’re straight loco, dude.

Hopefully it will show us we can no longer be the interventionist world power that we were after WWII (face it, our war record went pretty much straight downhill from there) and that we need to get our sh1t together instead of telling the rest of the world how they should be behave. We need to be done with the god damn empire building and fix things at home before we lose it all.

Still hasn’t hit the Bush era highs, especially accounting for inflation.

The United States government manipulated the oil markets to fund the build up of these towns. Sky rocketing oil prices afforded Big Oil profits, which they used to fund the build up of infrastructure in these towns. Tax payer dollars never could have achieved this, but artificial spikes in oil could, and did. Whom ever came up with the plan is genius.

Frackers disagree.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fracker...150760?tesla=y

Thumbs up, Someone's been paying attention.

House status:

☐ Disorderly
☒ In order

Everybody…. Assume the crash position!!!!!!!

You need to watch less Tucker Carlson. Putin just made the argument that Ukraine (that's not just the ethnic Russian part, FYI) illegitimately separated from the USSR. Putin has been quoted as saying the greatest travesty in Russian history was the collapse of Soviet Union.

All the apologists have been excusing his poor behavior since the Georgia invasion. Oh it's just Georgia (insert fabricated excuse). Oh, it's just Crimea (insert fabricated excuse). Now it's just Eastern Ukraine because of some perceived slight. Could there be some legitimate gripes from the perspective of your Russian government? Yes. Absolutely. But you don't show up with 150,000 troops backed by nuclear warheads and say "give us that we want or else." That isn't diplomacy. That's hostage taking.