I am in the middle of more than a couple fracking pads. They are fracking at 6000ft below the surface. You can barely tell there are pads in the area unless really looking for them. I only have a couple acres but have signed a lease. If it pans out, I could be debt free in four years if they touch anywhere beneath me; there again, with directional drilling, they could go right around my little parcel of land. At any rate, in my general area, fracking has been outstanding for the communities and our local economies are showing the results.
I too hope the technology becomes better and better. I would love nothing more than to hear we no longer needed involvement with OPEC (and and end to the liberals tired meme of “it’ll take ten years to -insert inane argument here- before we see results, so why bother?”)
I’ll try to quote Ronald Reagan : it’s not that I’ll accuse my liberal friends of being ignorant, but what they say and what they know just isn’t so.
Liberal’s argument that it will take 10 year to produce oil once we start drilling, as always, they are wrong again.
They know so much, they are so educated, but yet ? they achieve so little of anything that’s worthy.