{"id":2601,"date":"2015-06-18T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2016-01-30T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:49:30","slug":"why-energy-companies-fracking-should-pay-huge-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/politics\/why-energy-companies-fracking-should-pay-huge-tariffs","title":{"rendered":"Why energy companies fracking should pay *huge* tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we purchase water, there&#8217;s sort of a unspoken compact that we&#8217;re part of a closed loop system. We&#8217;re not going to pollute this water grossly and then lock it up far outside the water table, we&#8217;re going to use it and return it via the sewer system to be, in essence, recycled. Earth is based on a closed water cycle, which I&#8217;m sure you all learned about in grade school. The people who are fracking are opening that water cycle up &#8211; rendering the water uncleanable by mixing it with extremely disturbing chemicals, then locking it up deep in the earth.<\/p>\n<p>These people should be paying *enormously* more per gallon. Water is the most valuable liquid in the world and they are, in essence, reducing our total available fresh water. A $10\/gallon tariff doesn&#8217;t sound outrageous under the circumstances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we purchase water, there&#8217;s sort of a unspoken compact that we&#8217;re part of a closed loop system. We&#8217;re not going to pollute this water grossly and then lock it up far outside the water table, we&#8217;re going to use it and return it via the sewer system to be, in essence, recycled. Earth is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}