AW, GO FRACK YOURSELF!

Oil companies are greedy when it comes to water, and one reason for that is the fracking process.  Lots of talk goes around these days about it, but government is doing nothing to stop it . . . and we'll all end up paying for that in the future.  Like with anything else in a society like ours, we won't do anything about it until we're in real trouble.  Until we're nearly bled dry, we won't do anything to stop the bleeding.  I don't know what we'll do when the time comes, but I can promise you the time is coming when we're going to be dealing with some major water shortages.  We already out of water in some parts of the country, but that will spread to other parts, and that time is not far away.

Picture your town with no car wash places, dead lawns in residential areas (even golf courses and football fields), dry rivers and lakes, and bottled water that costs more than beer.  Maybe you already live in a town like that.  We have several of them here in Texas, and the problem can't be totally blamed on oil companies and their fracking practices.  We're all to blame because we're water wasteful, and water is like gold when it comes to your survival.  You can't live without it.  And when the time comes that you don't have enough of it, when you're living under strict water rationing plans mandated by government entities, make sure you get angry at the right source.  Be mad at yourself first, and then blame government for allowing it to happen. 

Why blame government?  It's simple - most of us aren't responsible enough to fix problems like that.  We're the users of the water, but mankind has never been good at regulating things related to survival.  History is rife with accounts of the demise of societies that failed to see problems coming.  They used up their resources, then died off.  And here we are doing the same thing.  Our government seems to be no smarter than past governments, at least not here in America.  I think we're probably better at taking care of our environment than most countries, but what others do changes things for us.  South of us in South American the forests are fast disappearing, and that changes rain patters in this country . . . and that changes our water situation.  Chop down trees in Honduras or Brazil, chop down water supply in America.  We can deal with all that, if we prepare for it.  But we're not.