Climate alarmists claim fracking is harmful to humans. I would suggest that it is far more harmful to allow Americans to die of heat or exposure to cold due to lack of air conditioning or heating in winter. There is now way "renewables" can take over on one year all the energy required for cooling, heating, transportation or manufacturing.
The stark consequences of the lunatic left promising to ban fracking could never be more clear. Action like this would plunge us into a depression immediately and then wipe out the economy and our way of life.
This needs to be stated far and wide.
Fracking greatly improved the yield from oil and gas production. Now it’s time for a similar quantum leap in nuclear - distributed thorium reactors for example.
The best energy policy is “all the above”. Renewables hydro, wind, solar, wave) have a place as does nuclear, clean coal, and oil/gas.
Ping.
If this is true, then I don't understand why our entire country isn't just one big rubble pile from all of the fracking-induced earthquakes.
The leftist fears about fracking effects on the water table and earthquakes have been disproved by reliable studies. The left has a political agenda, not science.
Fracking has made America energy independent and more prosperous. The drillers are now better at recovering and cleaning the upwelling fluids and water so it does not cause pollution. The drillers do sometimes burn off gas that comes out but mostly because it’s hard to get permits to bring in a pipeline to divert the gas into. If states were better about allowing pipelines, the excess gas would be a very clean energy source for electric generation and other needs.
Boom Town.
