[Alberta's Child]

Because of exponential technologies -- including fracking -- we live in a world of potential abundance, but we are constrained by policy and other forms of narrow thinking.

That's a very interesting point. I'd also suggest that we are constrained by the limits of our consumption. In effect, our capacity to produce things far outweighs our ability to consume them. This is why our economy has devolved into a fascist (in the original sense) crony-capitalist system where companies and entire industries can only exist by getting people and businesses to become their customers under threat of government force. Isn't that what ObamaCare is all about, for example?

[sparklite2]

our capacity to produce things far outweighs our ability to consume them...

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...at a price we are willing to pay. That’s why so many consumer goods are imported. Crony-capitalism in the form of minimum wages, burdensome taxes, overbearing regulations, bars to entry, and unions to name a few.

[AZLiberty]

Consider if the post-WWII growth rates had continued to the present — or accelerated with the advent of Moore’s Law. We would all be sitting pretty. Why didn’t they? Because our controlling institutions were more interested in consolidating their power than in permitting individuals to thrive.

[AZLiberty]

I'm back to watching "cold fusion" as an energy source. Things seemed pretty quiet after Rossi dumped Industrial Heat, but now things seem to be "heating up" again. E.g., E-CAT World.com

Fracking is just the bridge we need to practically limitless energy from what now seem to be unusual sources.