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Environment & Energy

Bo Zarts

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3. That SE corner of NM is big fracking country ..

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun May 31, 2026, 01:01 PM

20 hrs ago

In January 2023, I got caught up in a big traffic jam on a back highway (TX/NM 128) into tiny Jal, New Mexico, from Odessa, Texas. It was a stationary line of dozens of trucks hauling fracking material from Texas to the oilfields near Jal.

This is war-for-oil country, which I never understood. Seems like liberating foreign oil would depress the market for domestic product. But what do I know? This "B-52" is just north of Jal on NM-18.

SE New Mexico near Artesia.

By a roadside picnic area near Loco Hills, NM.

Bo Zarts in the oil patch for a photo op.

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