[PSYCHO-FREEP]

One would think that logic would eventually win. Of course if we were in a logical world. But there are too many ignorant, brainwashed fools on the East Coast who believe every thing they are told or read.

In the end though, simply shut off their heat and electricity. It won't be long before they start screaming that somebody lower the price of energy so they can afford food again. Maybe then they can all be happy, knowing that the “Mother Earth” has been saved. (When it was never in trouble in the first place.)

[dirtboy]

The main problem is not, IMO, the big-city types in the cities. It is instead the big-city types who moved out into the country - you know, the same folks who move out to Lancaster County for the country ambiance and then complain about the smell from the dairy farms.

You have a lot of folks from NYC who bought homes in the woods in the Marcellus shale belt (including NE PA - the region is infested with them - they take busses to work). And now, egads, there are well pads just down the road from them. Ruining their country experience. So they see anti-fracking as their main NIMBY path.

Unfortunately for them, most of the old timers LIKE the jobs and revenues that drilling and production is creating - the old timers have tasted hard times for many years and like the smell of money that fracking represents. And the old timers are typically the county power structure. Hence the NIMBY folks shifting the battle to the media, where misinformation can get traction.