Lot's of 'frackin' going on, more new gas and oil holes than have ever been started since the thirties, and pipelines being built all over the place - except my county, which is mineral and intellectually poor. The USGS associates now the connection 'tween the injections of "proprietary" lubricants and tremors but the industry denies this relationship. So do most churches, who here play an active role in State's affairs up to and including the science curriculum in the public schools...which generally claim God injected that oil for us to use and burn as motor fuel and lube oil, which then have a divine place on surface water, dumped to run downhill after we use it up and it ends-up in Texas, where no one here who's childhood was endless disposable diapers and empty cheap beer cans were the entertainment of throwing the latter to hit the former dead-on while driving the backroads during mobile-meth manufacturing undertaken by their parents in the front seat. Hard culture to respect, harder still to understand.
I like earthquakes - kind of humbling. I'm also not taking the fuel-price thing too seriously...don't go anywheres too much and working on my long-range plan to reduce further, my dwindling addiction to it.
