[Rockhounds] The Bakken Formation - An Interesting Read

[Axel Emmermann]

> Not to finger point Axel, but are you advocating and living 
> the life of a goat herder? 

I would suck at that... ;-)))

> Have you given up electricity? 
> Water piped to your home? Do you live in a Yurt? 

Not likely, no... But some people have none of the above because we squander
our resources on "needing" the latest cell phone, i-Pod, ....
We "need" a car to go to work, one for the wife, one for the kids, one for
all terrain and one for making the neighbors jealous. The latter has to have
at least a 3 liter engine.

We really are funny people: China buys lots of the steel and when the price
of steel goes up we blame the government for not protecting our economic
interest. China buys lots of oil and when prices go up we blame the Arabs.

Petroleum is made of irreplaceable hydrocarbons. We can make plastics and
other durable things of it. Instead we burn it. Why? Because it's there and
because people get rich of it. Certainly not because it makes sense ;-)))

You 
> obviously haven't given up the internet....heh.

And that is the least of my vices. 
But I took care of my house qua insulation and I had a completely new
heating system installed with a condensation boiler. I shut off the TV
between programs I want to see and I try to limit car use.
We own one car.

Cheers
Axel