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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Elsie Gibbs on June 3, 2011 at 5:36pm

I am not the biggest fan of what is going on. But I won't blame the bad roads on the drillers and their trucks. Before the drillers came here we had to replace struts yearly and never could keep an alignment on any of our vehicles. We now have a fully paved road and no bumps. Still one and a held lane wide LOL. Must say it is nice to drive on and yes even ride our bikes. Now if only the drillers would use the two dirt roads that our road leads to then we might have all paved roads for the first time ever.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Knapp on June 3, 2011 at 6:02pm

http://www.wetmtv.com/news/local/story/Chesapeake-Announces-Road-Pr...

Chesapeake Energy, just one company, is close to $150 million by themselves. 

 

Range Resources has put over $20 million into roads just in Washington County. 

http://weirtondailytimes.com/page/content.detail/id/562200/Range-Re...

 

ANXIOUSLY AWAITING YOUR RESPONSE. 

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Permalink Reply by Doug Duffield on June 3, 2011 at 7:37pm

i'm rideing my bike,lol.

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Permalink Reply by Tom on June 4, 2011 at 2:03pm

I don't bring my tractor to your cul-de-sac, don't bring your bicycle to my narrow, bicycle unsafe, crooked country roads.

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Elsie Gibbs on June 4, 2011 at 3:50pm

Went to ACE Hardware today and on RT 136 there were four cyclists in the middle of my lane. Now this part of the road is 45 mph and heavy traffic . They not only slowed us all down they turned left onto the Covered Bridge road right in front of a truck. These idiots have no idea how long it takes a truck to stop they sure are not those little "green smart cars".

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Permalink Reply by 0jw0dsu4txfuv on June 4, 2011 at 3:59pm

I am a motorcycle rider and I have seen bicycle riders do things I would never think about doing. They do idiotic stunts that are foolish and downright stupid.

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Permalink Reply by Tom on June 5, 2011 at 7:20am

The government has spent a lot of money for "Rails to Trails" so that people have a place to walk and ride. There are miles and miles of former railroad routes that are open to bicyclists. They are well maintained and "big" trucks don't drive on them and as an added bonus, they won't put a drilling rig on one.

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Elsie Gibbs on June 5, 2011 at 7:24am

That is where we usually go. Also on bike trails at the parks. Love the peace and quiet as they don't allow quads on them.

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Permalink Reply by mark ayers on June 6, 2011 at 5:58pm

Hey Jim,

 

I'm glad we are able to find some common ground, I'm a builder also, 2nd generation and now my son works for me  and my older customers think its neat to have had 3 generations work on their homes. I have maintained all along that we need good leadership at the local, state and fed level that this is to important to blow it, we will only get one chance to do this right. With the way the world (and country ) seems to be headed the nat gas can act as an insulator for this part of the country, Ohio now included. As this play develops we have to find ways to use it here. Right now there is only one export point in the U.S. and that is in Alaska,(that goes to Japan) but in 5 years or less there will be others. Does anyone know who has the most cng cars in the world?  Pakistan, and number 2? Argentina, and get this Iran is number three. That  burns my a$$(pun intended).  

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_natural_gas. 

Honda has the only cng powered car in the U.S available to individuals, why?  Big Oil, Auto Co.

Government, I dont know.  Where did this hatred of nat gas come from in such a short time? Is there more to the story than meets the eye? There are big forces a work and the last thing we need is dishonest or worse dumb leaders.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Knapp on June 6, 2011 at 6:57pm

Look at who stands to lose big time from the widespread production of American natural gas.   OPEC is trembling, getting ready to increase production to try to keep us addicted.   Gazprom, the state owned gas monopoly of Russia has been spending a LOT of money in Europe to push the "perils" of fracking.

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Elsie Gibbs on June 7, 2011 at 8:13am

OK this is off topic.

In my not so humble opinion we need a lot less government and more responsibility from everyone and I don't mean just the drilling. This should be from dog catcher on up including teachers and civil servants.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on June 6, 2011 at 10:30pm

Mark, its is the environmentalists that are against nat gas the most . While they will tell you it is about fracinga nd protecting water (which is true for local antis) there is more to the story. If nat gas becomes a major player in the transportation and electrical generation field, it will displace the conversion to the much more expensive solar and wind sources.  These are the favored energy sources of the greenies and they hate that nat gas will delay it by fifty years or more. And these so-called green sources have great political clout with crowd currently in charge in DC.

Its a shame because these so-called green sources aren't all that clean.  Solar cells production requires all sorts of toxic, polluting chemicals. Read http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/solar_pollution_china.php   And that is just part of it.  I have seen experts on PBS state that it takes more energy to make a solar cell than  the cell will produce in its lifetime.  Wind also has tons of problems.

 

Local people that are against it have some legitimate concerns but the global leadership is just angry their selected favorites are about to be displaced. And the saddest part is that nat gas may be the bridge fuel buying us time until solar, fusion, or some other form of energy  becomes developed enough to be our main sources of energy.

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