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Poll: Republicans Boost Opposition To Fracking
townhall.com ^ | 4/2/2016 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 04/03/2016 9:14:35 AM PDT by rktman

In Gallup's 2016 Environment survey, conducted March 2-6, Americans have a clearer position on fracking than they did a year ago. Last year, 40% said they favored fracking and 40% were opposed, with a substantial 19% not knowing about or having no opinion on fracking. In 2016, support for fracking has slipped to 36%, while opposition has climbed to 51%.

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Obviously no shortage of frackin' dumbasses who base their opinions mostly on "news" of the dangers of frickin' frackin'. Do they have any clue at all? I'm sure algore is laughing all the way to the bank.
1 posted on 04/03/2016 9:14:35 AM PDT by rktman
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“Do they have any clue at all?”

Answer: NO! But the light may go on when we’re back to $4.00 per gallon gasoline and home heating oil! John Wayne was right, “life’s tough, and it’s tougher when you’re stupid!” 90% of Americans are stupid sheep!


2 posted on 04/03/2016 9:17:59 AM PDT by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: rktman

Who paid for this Gallup poll, the Saudis?


3 posted on 04/03/2016 9:20:49 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: rktman

The whole nation has been schooled in Rio Linda.


4 posted on 04/03/2016 9:22:19 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: rktman

Ninety five percent of “americans” have no idea what fracking is. It’s rather moronic to ask them if they oppose it. Before these commie pollsters ask these morons questions like this, they should ask them if they know what fracking is and have them explain it to them. “Americans” aren’t really the brightest people on the planet these days.


5 posted on 04/03/2016 9:22:23 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I wonder how many actually know that the technique that’s called “fracking” today was actually started in 1947???

It ain’t new, folks....


6 posted on 04/03/2016 9:29:43 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: rktman
Actually, no. I live dead-center in the Barnett Shale. If you've never seen the tactics employed by some landmen hawking leases, my friend, you would be quite surprised.

I was a drill-baby-drill person before, and I still am, but the boots on the ground have left a very bad taste in people's mouths around here. In Fort Worth, the courts turned 150 years of property rights law on it's head, effectively giving the oil and gas company your rights if you refuse to sign their toilet-paper Producer 88 leases slanted in their favor (even though it's impacting your home). I know folks in west Texas that are really getting screwed; their lease grants them royalties after expenses. The O&G company was drilling on their property for several years and they never saw a dime. Apparently, any expense for the producer, including trips to Hawaii, are deducted against their royalties.

Not everyone in the industry is a bad actor (I know some who are good), but recognize that the bad actors are doing serious damage to the industry because they are not only screwing people out of money, they are also messing up their land (spoiling the water, tapping the well tables dry, etc.).

Don't presume that everyone who is against something speaks from a place of ignorance. There are plenty who have lots of experience...all of which, unfortunately, is bad.

7 posted on 04/03/2016 9:34:14 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: FreeReign

I’m sick to death of Gallup and their inch-deep polls of inch-deep idiots.

Isn’t the most obvious followup question in the world ‘Can you define fracking?’


8 posted on 04/03/2016 9:40:59 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: TheWriterTX

A few more complaints I have heard are:
1) A quiet town becomes busy and noisy because someone opened a fracking well in town.
2) One person lived on the wrong side of train tracks in a town. This was not an issue because trains rarely went through. However, after fracking started, there would be times where he was stuck in his house all day because the trains would just keep coming. The response was, “we don’t care”.


9 posted on 04/03/2016 10:02:51 AM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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To: FreeReign

“Who paid for this Gallup poll, the Saudis?”....

The results must be true, we read it on the internet.


10 posted on 04/03/2016 10:09:33 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: vette6387

In a few years, they’ll be talking about the good old days when gasoline was $4.00/gallon if Hillary gets elected with a Democrat Congress. They’ll also bemoan their electric bills with 40 cent/kwh rates for ‘renewable’ energy and the inconvenience of brownouts and blackouts.


11 posted on 04/03/2016 10:14:44 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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“But the light may go on when we’re back to $4.00 per gallon gasoline and home heating oil”

Doubtful. The light didn’t go on when gasoline quickly spiked from $1.86 per gallon on inauguration day 2009 to over $4.00 per gallon.


12 posted on 04/03/2016 10:25:31 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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“Doubtful. The light didn’t go on when gasoline quickly spiked from $1.86 per gallon on inauguration day 2009 to over $4.00 per gallon.”

Sadly, you may be right! The truth of the matter is, that if we were going to fight the British today for our freedom. I doubt anyone would show up on our side for the fight! We have become a country of self-absorbed pussys who don’t think because they don’t have the faculty to do so. Just look at the blank stares guys like Jesse Watters gets when he “questions” our current crop of young people.


13 posted on 04/03/2016 10:33:30 AM PDT by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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Before fracking, people in Europe literally froze to death because they could not affort the sky high prices that the Russians charged for gas and oil.


14 posted on 04/03/2016 10:34:00 AM PDT by cassiusking
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To: Skepolitic
In a few years, they’ll be talking about the good old days when gasoline was $4.00/gallon if Hillary gets elected with a Democrat Congress. They’ll also bemoan their electric bills with 40 cent/kwh rates for ‘renewable’ energy and the inconvenience of brownouts and blackouts.

And folks will bitch and whine when we find ourselves in yet another war to ensure oil supplies from the Arabs.

15 posted on 04/03/2016 10:34:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rktman

The constant propaganda and it’s effects prove the power of the press. Especially when it harms a society as a whole.


16 posted on 04/03/2016 10:35:59 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Hmmm, been to Rio Linda lately?


17 posted on 04/03/2016 10:46:09 AM PDT by Sivad (FEEL THE BERN? ....try penicillin)
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To: ronnietherocket3
Others are well spills, pipeline explosions, nasty odors, or for those close to a major compression station, the non-stop noise.

And yes, the "we don't care."

When they decide on an area, they usually meet with the town council and schools first, since they have large open spaces. They'll toss some big money in that direction, and then move into neighborhoods one by one.

A shame.

If they were upfront with people and made a decent offer with a decent lease, most folks are like me, they want America to be energy independent. Instead, you have untrained rubes using strong arm tactics to compel people to sign.

The snot-nosed idiot who landed, unbidden, on my doorstep and insisted that if I didn't sign his bird-cage liner Producer 88 lease he would "take my minerals anyway", made a huge mistake. First, you don't shove a piece of paper in front of me, expecting me to sign away rights to my property, without giving me a copy and a chance to have an attorney review it. Second, you don't mess with my family, property, home, or pets without my permission, or I will make you pay dearly.

I helped organize my entire neighborhood and shut them down until they signed our 18-page monster lease and paid everyone a real signing bonus, instead of the pittance they were offering.

When we sold that home, we made sure that the new owners got the minerals along with it. We believed it was the honorable thing that they had the right to control and benefit from anything impacting their property. Kind of surprising that fellow conservatives don't see it the same way.

18 posted on 04/03/2016 10:49:35 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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Kind of surprising that fellow conservatives don't see it the same way.

I think the problem is that a lot of attacks on fracking have come from environmentalists and others whose policies have had the effect of driving up prices or are trying to get us to switch to "clean" energy.

I also wonder if the conservative movement has slowly morphed from valuing freedom to worshiping money.
19 posted on 04/03/2016 11:10:43 AM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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To: ronnietherocket3
Understood. Most reasonable people have figured out that the environmentalist crowd no longer really cares about the environment, it's all about wealth redistribution. When they are wrapping their arms around kooks like Van Jones, or engage in domestic terrorism, they've lost any credibility they had.

Clean energy, while great in theory, is not a realistic alternative and won't be for many years. This administration has tossed ungodly amounts of money into "green" programs, most of which went nowhere fast except to line their cronies' pockets.

They've also gone after the coal industry in the hopes of destroying it completely. A lot of good people are being put out of jobs thanks to President Zero and his merry band of enviro-extremists.

I don't think money is at the core of it from our side; it's the realization that enviro-extremists really want to weaken our country, whereas energy independence makes us stronger and less reliant on terrorist-sponsoring freedom-hating despots; therefore, anything that remotely smacks of it evokes a powerful, negative response on our side.

Hopefully, though, some folks will recognize that this issue is a little more complex than the typical zealot enviro-sloganeering; for me, it has to do with property rights, quality of life, water rights, and ethical business practices, things Conservatives should care about.

20 posted on 04/03/2016 12:23:54 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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