Dobbin Won't Drink It
(And Jenny doesn't dare boil it)

Jennifer Snow has been bugging Tom Corbett.
She leads Dobbin to water but she can't make him drink.
She's told he's not thirsty, but he most always is.
The problem's Jen's water and its terrible stink.

Wasn't always that way, but Jenny can't prove it.
Dobbin used to consume many gallons a day.
But it never occurred to her she'd need it tested,
So it's her word and Dobbin's and Dobbin can't say.

On TV America's Natural Gas
Comes across as so cozy, so friendly, so clean.
But what they are careful to leave out of their ads:
With a Jennifer Snow they can be dirty and mean.

To get at 'their' gas they use noxious chemicals
As they drill deep underground to 'fracture' the soil
.
Could these be what Dobbin is smelling and tasting –
Water that Jenny now doesn't dare boil.

It could be from methane that was already there,
That wasn't a bother till it was disturbed
But who has the records to show what has happened?
Only drillers who worry that they might be curbed.

What if they've wasted millions on late night TV,
Raising Jennifer Snow's clean air expectations,
Only to find there's not enough money left
To compensate Dobbin for three conflagrations?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
On Twitter @PBoondoggles
5/19/11

To 'Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking'
To 'PA Governor Gives Energy Executive
       Supreme Authority Over Environmental Permitting'

To 'More Reasons to Question Whether Gas Is Cleaner Than Coal'
To 'Gas Drilling Companies Hold Data Needed
       by Researchers to Assess Risk to Water Quality'

To 'Forced Pooling: When Landowners Can’t Say No to Drilling'
To 'America's Natural Gas Verses'
To 'Fire From A Faucet' Verse
To 'Red State Nutjob Verses'
To '(ALEC) American Legislative Exchange Council:
       Ghostwriting State Laws for Corporate America'

To 'Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet'



5/19/11