Posted on 03/31/2016 2:14:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Opposition to the practice of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" has increased significantly in the past year as environmental concerns, such as earthquakes, have grown, even though the procedure has helped keep oil prices low.
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In the past year, the price of oil has fluctuated between roughly $25 and $60 per barrel, a staggering drop from its peak of around $120 in mid-2014. One major reason the price of this commodity has remained so low is fracking, which now accounts for half of the oil production in the U.S. As recently as 2000, fracking made up only 2% of the nation's oil output.
In Gallup's 2016 Environment survey, conducted March 2-6, Americans have a clearer position on fracking than they did a year ago. Last year, 40% said they favored fracking and 40% were opposed, with a substantial 19% not knowing about or having no opinion on fracking. In 2016, support for fracking has slipped to 36%, while opposition has climbed to 51%. The percentage of Americans with no opinion has dropped to 13%, perhaps as the term becomes more commonplace in the culture, or as the media has more extensively covered the arguments for and against fracking.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
Republicans had the biggest drop in support for fracking, falling from 66% support in 2015 to 55% this year. Still, Republicans' support for fracking far exceeds support among independents (34%) and Democrats (25%). Views among the last two groups are essentially unchanged from last year.
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How about asking this; “Do you support ending fracking even if it means doubling the price of gasoline?”.
Push Poll?
fracking means money in the pockets of the property owners
the anti frackers feel fracked because they own no property ... just dinky apartments at 3K a month
suffer, meatheads !
We are officially a nation of Morans.
WHY oh WHY are libs so freakin stupid?
Please can anyone answer???
My gas in Phoenix has gone up 76 cents a gal in 18 days.
Our good friends, the Saudi’s must have halved production.
Works for me.
Or, "Do you support the US fighting endless wars in the Middle East to keep supplies of oil going?"
I have to look very hard to see around our in-nation reasons for the costs we pay.
Take another poll when gas hits $4
I guess now we don’t like energy independence. Let’s get our oil from ISIS.
Gallup seems to either have problems with sampling or their liberal special sauce lately. Their results seem to be a bit predetermined and their questions seem “results friendly.”
For all the liberal socialists who are frightened out of their wits over “fracking”:
In asking the question of whether the use of hydraulic fracturing is “a good idea,” the premise appears to be based on an assumption that the technology is “a new idea” as well.
But the truth is, fracturing technology has been deployed in the United States for nearly 65 years, not only as a way to optimize the production of oil and natural gas, but also to do the same for water wells and geothermal energy. EPA has even used it as a means of remediating Superfund sites. All told, more than 1.2 million oil and natural gas wells have undergone fracture stimulation since the technology was first introduced in Hugoton Field of Kansas in 1947.
There IS an oil cartel, or oligopoly here in the USA, and no politician these days will go after them. They own too many of them, anyway.
Evidently...
The “Summer blends” I am sure help. I live (part of the year) in the highest area fracked in the East. The companies are good neighbors and they are leaving the land better than they found it, and there are a lot of road improvements too.
“The “Summer blends” I am sure help”
I’m sure, but it doesn’t account for my fuel going from 1.25 to 202 in 18 days. I was in finance for 30 years, and know better than that.
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