[dblshot]

Link doesn't work. I am on a Linkedin discussion thread of alternative energy sources with a thread called “How Long Before Fracking is Outlawed”. There are two diametrically opposed positions each claiming the other doesn't have any facts. I'd like to link this, not that it'll change any minds. I feel like Gallieo must have felt arguing against religious edict.

[faucetman]

This is the NEW global warming. These lefties have lost the global warming scam, so now they have glommed onto “fracking” as their newest cause celeb to replace GW and drag down the country.

It is TRUE (even liberals admit it) that NO STUDY to date has found that fracking has polluted ground water. FACTS are a problem for these commies. Yet, they are winning. How many rigs have left the gulf? How many new permits have been issued? Are we drilling in ANWR yet? Are we drilling new wells off the Florida or California coasts? Are we building new nuclear (or nucular for GWB) plants? New oil refineries? And on & on & on. If we don't take back America NOW, there will be no America to take back.

[okie01]

There are two diametrically opposed positions each claiming the other doesn't have any facts.

Pssssssttttt!

One of them doesn't. Instead, they have wishful opinions expressed as unsubstantiated assertions.

The other actually does have facts. About sixty years worth of facts. Just because the first side doesn't like them doesn't make them invalid.

"Fracking" is one of those arguments that is entirely political. Real science and decades of actual experience somehow aren't relevant.

If it were not for liberalism, a semi-intelligent person wouln't dare espouse the left's inane theories for fear of being laughed out of town.