the moon's favors: For companies such as Chesapeake and Exxon Mobil's XTO, selling gas to Japan or Europe -- which buys imported LNG at five or six times the domestic price of $2.50 per million British thermal units -- is essential to continue expanding their U.S. business

2012/06/27

For companies such as Chesapeake and Exxon Mobil's XTO, selling gas to Japan or Europe -- which buys imported LNG at five or six times the domestic price of $2.50 per million British thermal units -- is essential to continue expanding their U.S. business

Insight: As Congress looks away, U.S. tiptoes toward exporting a gas bounty

You mean -- let Fracking ruin the US environment and water supply so the hydrocarbon industry can make more and bigger profits through exports. Really? Keep on fracking because Congress is short-sighted (owned) and the public intentionally disinformed by a hydrocarbon industry overlord that we should have been-- for DECADES -- displacing with alternatives? Beloved, the marriage is OVER. Where will we be in ten years, Germany gone solar and the rest of us stuck with these FOSSILS?

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine