Oil Drillers Are Caving to Environmentalists and Going Electric, And It's Proving Troublesome
Story by Allison Anton • 17h
Oil companies can never totally appease the environmentalists, but that doesn't stop them from trying -- even if those attempts yield disastrous results.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, U.S. oil drillers are attempting to go electric, but they keep running into significant problems.
Namely, they keep running out of electricity.
While we could go ahead and point out the irony of this whole situation, let's not get ahead of ourselves. What exactly is happening with these oil companies trying to go electric?
According to the Journal, in Martin County, Texas, home of the country's "busiest oil fields, frackers are devouring nearly as much electricity as four Seattles every day -- and they are clamoring for more."
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