Just got my stockholder's report from Exxon Mobil today....

[hedgehog]

( I got two shares as an employee of Mobil, many, many years ago)

Pg. 62:

"Through oilfield injection, oil extraction uses nearly 60 million gallons of water annually in the Canadian province of Alberta alone. This water is not returned to the local community and is ultimately unusable for other purposes;

The EPA reports that US oil refineries us 1 to 2 billion gallons of water daily ( up to 730 billion gallons annually) to produce fuel (USDOE, 2006)

[loudsue]

1. Those fucking fools. Potable water will soon be so much more scarce

than oil ever was. Fools fools fools.

[RKP5637]

2. +1000 +++ n/t

[maryf]

4. Creating peak water!! Creating a supply shortage

with high demand!! It's all about creating higher profit! It's all about capitalism...(hydrofracking is doing the same thing, btw)

[loudsue]

6. Absolutely. They're fracking for oil AND gas.

It's killing the water supply.

[Auggie]

3. Unusable for other purposes??? What happens to it?

[bluedigger]

5. No problem! We'll just distill the water.

Using energy created by hydrocarbons, of course.

The wheels on the bus go round and round...