Posted on 03/16/2020 12:23:42 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats are fond of pointing fingers at others and accusing them of ignoring science. They resort to this canard whenever they are trying to avoid having to form a rational, fact-based argument around “climate change,” but they like to use it as a crutch against logic on other topics as well.
But in Sunday night’s debate, when Biden once again demonized hydraulic fracturing – or “fracking” – and promised his administration would invoke a “no new fracking” policy should he actually stumble into the White House next January, it was Biden and no one else who was ignoring real, actual science.
Ironically, in ignoring the actual science around the very safe, well-regulated industrial process of fracking, Biden was ignoring the advice of the senior officials who held regulatory sway over oil and gas-related activities while he served as Vice President. These officials include, but are far from limited to:
Steven Chu, Stanford PhD. Nobel Prize Winner (Physics) DOE Secretary
U.S. Senator Ken Salazar, (Juris Doctor from University of Michigan) DOI Secretary
Sally Jewell (Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington) DOI Secretary
Gina McCarthy (Master of Science in Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy, Tufts University) EPA Administrator
Lisa Jackson (Master of Science in chemical engineering from Princeton University) EPA Administrator
Each and every one of these cabinet-level appointees by President Barack Obama testified and commented on the record on multiple occasions throughout the Obama/Biden administration that hydraulic fracturing was a safe and well-regulated process that offers no threat to groundwater and produces very little air emissions. These senior Obama-era officials were literally forced to make these admissions after spending years in the conduct of a vain search for examples of fracking polluting groundwater or releasing major, harmful air emissions.
The effort at the EPA rose to such hyperbolic levels that one EPA Region 6 administrator, former SMU professor, Dr. Al Armendariz, was removed after his allegations of groundwater contamination by Range Resources were proven to be false. However, that proof did not prevent the State of New York from using Armendariz’s findings in its own doctored report that was used to justify banning fracking within its state borders.
Mr. Biden loves to talk about his years of serving as Vice President to President Obama. Yet, when it comes to fracking and the science his own administration developed and communicated during those 8 years in office, the former VEEP seems to have developed a mental block.
But no worries – we will continue to remind him – and you – of the real, extremely well-developed body of science that surrounds this safe and well regulated industrial process. Because facts are stubborn and important things, especially during troubling times such as these.
That is all.
Science is based on math, which is Dem-incompatible. They do know the word, though. If you don’t obediently and immediately buy every belief they hold, just on the strength of their word, you’re “anti-science”.
“...Why does Joe Biden ignore Fracking Science?...”
Because Joe Biden is a fracking moron.
Because Creepy-Joe has the mental acuity of a styrofoam cup.
Came here to say that. You beat me to it.
As always I like to give credit where credit is due!
Let me thank the voters of Delaware for enabling this buffoon and his corrupt family for 36+ years!
becvasue Joe, liek every self righteous liberal out htere practically, wants to hurt this country- pure and simple
Joe Biden: “no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends” #DemDebate
Thanks Joe- we were getting real sick of things like, oh i dunno- hopping in our cars and speeding to emergency rooms, Having firetrucks at our homes if fires break out- driving to the store when food runs out, having fuel oil delivered to us en mass so we can all keep from freezing to death-
Biden will say whatever he needs to get elected.
Biden ignoring science? He is doing well to know where he is and what office he is running for.
Great minds and all that, friend! :^)
More simply, leftists believe oil and everything associated with it is evil.
I third your motion!
Because he’s pandering to his lunatic base. Couldn’t be clearer.
Professional fool.
On March 17, 1949, a team of petroleum production experts converges on an oil well about 12 miles east of Duncan, Oklahoma – to perform the first commercial application of hydraulic fracturing. Later that same day, Halliburton and Stanolind company personnel successfully fractured another oil well near Holliday, Texas.
We have been fracking wells for 70 years. This is nothing new. I was on some frack jobs myself back in the early 80s. The only difference today is we do it on a more massive scale and with much more success at recovering tight shale oil reserves. Today the USA is an oil exporter and not an oil importer. This has been a great economic boom to our nation. Our traditional wells that are non fracking wells continue to decline in production and will so in the future.
When Joe Biden says he will, “stop fracking” he is really talking about 4 to 5 dollar gasoline, natural gas for home heating through the roof in price, millions of workers laid off, and dependence on the Arab world for oil and some of them are not our friends. Those dollars from non friendlies will be used to hurt us.
Joe is either an idiot or a lying charlatan. I think he is both.
I forgot to add this chart.
Pounds of CO2 emitted per million British thermal units (Btu) of energy for various fuels
Coal (anthracite) 228.6
Coal (bituminous) 205.7
Coal (lignite) 215.4
Coal (subbituminous) 214.3
Diesel fuel and heating oil 161.3
Gasoline (without ethanol)
157.2
Propane 139.0
Natural gas 117.0
If Joe kills fracking he will kill the most efficient source of energy we have in great abundance which is natural gas. This will make us more dependent on imported oil with a much higher carbon footprint.
Actually it is plant food. Do not worry about the carbon footprint. Worry about giving money to our enemies and devastating our economy.
Jordan Peterson on Price’s Law
Damn, that video is excellent!
He’s an arrogant POS too.
Peterson is a piece of work.
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