March 6, 2016

Commissioner Tim Ryan

Broward County Commission

115 S. Andrews Avenue

Ft. Lauderdale, FL33301

RE: Congratulations! Fracking, Nullification, and you in today’s unlinkable mini Op-Ed in the Sun Sentinel.

Commissioner Ryan,

Let me do away with the genteel foreplay reasoned discourse. 

I read you quarter-assed quasi polemic on “fracking’ and can come to but one conclusion.

You are a HORSE’S ASS of Titanically Brobdanaglian proportions and dimensions. Call the Guinness Book of Records. Immortality awaits. Your picture will be the only definition needed. Your picture will set a standard to which all horses’ ass wanabees can aspire.

One of the great advantages of being a modern American Liberal is that truth and inconvenient facts are never allowed to interfere with the victim-villain scenario without which the Democrat Party would flat line.

I must tell you that I ‘fracked” my first well in January, 1974. I and the Republic have both survived.

Let’s start with the obvious.

“Fracking” is expensive. It is best done where Mother Nature gives you a sporting chance. Shale – Bakken, Marcellus, Eagle Ford, underneath the Austin Chalk, Clinton, inter alia – is where you go. It’s like hunting where the ducks are. Shale, si. Limestone, no.

An example of the typical Modern American Liberal conflation of correlation and causation is ignoring the inconvenient fact, the “turd in the punch bowl”, the “look at me because I ain’t going away” is that cheap gasoline and the exporting of domestic American natural gas, a thing undreamed of 10 years ago did not come about because of any Obama energy policies or Solyndra or Cash for Clunkers or any of the nit-witted, flap doodle Malthusian Luddite balderdash that passes for energy policy today.

It came about when high prices created the atmosphere in the marketplace that rewarded the technology that came to be without any help from the Department of Energy.

[Here is a truism with which I am certain that you are not familiar. 2 things  happen when the price of any commodity spikes. #1 – The marginal user is priced out of the marketplace and #2 – new supplies come into the marketplace. Put differently, if eggs go to $10 a dozen the rooster lays. Look it up.]

$1.71 unleaded regular and American LNG being exported to Rotterdam came about because of fracking.

 Some unseen benefits of falling energy prices are the fiscal restraint on Putin and his adventures, the introduction of Iranian oil as a further drag on the market, and the coming collapse of Venezuela, AKA Bernie Sanders’s Socialist Paradise.

If the beneficial effects of fracking upset you I suggest that you turn off all the A/Cs in your office and demand that anyone who works for your use only public transportation getting to and from work.

Simple, isn’t it?

When you finish your cram sessions on geology and petroleum engineering you take a peek at Nullification. Proponents of it felt so strongly about it that they fought over it. The Civil War.

Look that one up, you boob.

Kevin Smith