Posted on 04/16/2016 7:38:10 AM PDT by JimSEA
It’s easy to be against a policy when you don’t understand how that policy actually impacts your life. I believe that this is the case with one of Bernie Sanders’ proposals. Sanders has said multiple times that he would ban the process of hydraulic fracturing, but to my knowledge he has never addressed what the impact of such a ban might be. So let’s investigate.
The technique of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” had been around since the late 1940s and has been used extensively to promote higher production rates from oil and gas wells. Fracking involves pumping water, chemicals and a proppant down an oil or gas well under high pressure to break open channels (fractures) in the reservoir rock trapping the deposit. Oil and gas do not travel easily through these shale formations, which is why they need to be fractured. The proppant is a granular material (usually sand) designed to hold those channels open, allowing the oil (or natural gas) to flow to the well bore.
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hus, in the short term it is hard to conclude anything other than a ban on fracking would cause a surge of crude oil imports. Energy security would be weakened, and we would be back to importing more oil from unstable regions of the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Bernie is the anti-Hillary, and if he wins NY he is our friend.
Why would we import oil when we have so much being blocked by the socialists?
Drill drill drill and let the Saudis eat their petroleum.
Bernie would also block oil imports. Bernie believes we can get all the energy we need from the sun and the wind even if that means we will have to reduce our standard of living. After all, we spend too much on things like 28 different types of deodorant.
Your question is essentially what the Forbes article is asking. Sanders personifies the ignorant but radical socialist. First refer to Marxist ideology then “Forward”.
Does the phrase “necessarily skyrocket” ring a bell.
They want to do to the energy sector what they did to the medical sector.
More for less.
Democrats: don’t complain if you don’t watch who you vote for.
Does the phrase “necessarily skyrocket” ring a bell.
They want to do to the energy sector what they did to the medical sector.
More for less.
Democrats: don’t complain if you don’t watch who you vote for.
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