Helium Sales Legislation Would Impact Panhandle
At Wally’s Party Factory, a 32-store chain based in the North Texas town of Ennis, balloons no longer contain 100 percent helium — the total is down to 60 percent — and an additive is pumped in to help certain types float better.
“We’re doing a lot more to conserve the helium than we did in the past,” said Jonathan Erwin, the chain’s vice president and general counsel.
Such adjustments are one of the lighter indicators of a worldwide helium shortage. Experts say the scarcity could have significant implications for the space, high-tech and medical industries, where helium’s ...
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Christopher Rivas via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Children all over the world will suffer greatly. This can't be allowed to continue. I heard it's all hydrogen's fault, he's hiding in Iran. Time for a war on the periodic table and a preemptive strike in the middle east.
Jim Vance
Perhaps the geologists of the world might identify natural gas fields with "rocks of a certain age" comparable to those in the Panhandle, and industry could drill some test wells to ascertain whether they would be able to produce helium at economically feasible rates and prices so as to stave off the loss of this non-renewable resource for awhile longer....
Jim Arnold
The Republican's caused all of this.