These days, people are maxed out on every level trying to get through life as everything gets more tedious, expensive, and uncertain. The onslaught of “glittering generalities” and opinionated political rhetoric coming from popular media and paid advertising on “both” sides is enough to make many shut off and tune out – their philosophical bandwidth running at full capacity until it is choked off entirely. What remains, perhaps by design, are emotional remnants of anxiety, fear, and resentment towards some law, group, or politician they claim has caused the bulk of our problems. But this blame game would slow down dramatically and make room for meaningful mitigation measures if people better understood the fundamental root of America’s problems, and I think we’ve got a long ways to go until most of us are on the same page.
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Above: US gas production per well versus active well count.
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Above: US oil productivity per well
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