fracking only works in the US.
why is that?
>> fracking only works in the US. why is that?
Because our oilmen are heartless bastards bent on destroying Gaia and we are the only nation with enough plutonium to make fracking fluid? :-)
But seriously, my guess is fracking would work anywhere in the world where the oil and gas are in similar tight formations. But it’s currently only USED in the US, because the rest of world is mainly pumping easy oil, plus we’re the only ones with the technological savvy.
PRIVATE PROPERTY.
While probably tongue in cheek, there’s also probably a grain of truth there. State run oil enterprises don’t have the talent, equipment and risk courting combination available here to facilitate new methods of exploiting oil.
If free society companies and individuals hadn’t gone to the sandy country oil rich parts of the world in the first half and middle of the 19th century and developed oil infrastructure (that most of them subsequently ended up nationalizing) they’d still be herding goats and killing each other over top of it...