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Originally Posted by MaDalton
my point regarding fracking is that toxic fluids are pumped into the ground and no one can foresee the long term effects - especially not on ground water
eventually you are poisoning your future water supply - and all that so you can drive V8 and have AC everywhere
to be honest - i love animals but i rather have a couple birds flying into a windmill than that
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I'm not sure of this...but aren't there already all kinds of toxic stuff underground naturally already?
It just seems like everytime something happens that is hopeful for mankind...the left take a shit on it.
When I was in highschool in the 1970's we were told that the world's oil supply would be depleted within 20 years. And then they doubled down on that by telling us that greenhouse gases were going to cause another Ice Age.
When new oil reserves were being found as technology improved to find and get them...they changed the story to acid rain in the 1980's. We were all doomed again.
When that didn't happen. The "Ice Age" became "Global Warming".
Apparently the global temps have stopped rising the last couple of years. So now "Global Warming" became "Climate Change".
And oil is so expensive that gas was costing us an arm and a leg. And the left cheered!
Then...fracking technology is introduced. Suddenly the economy in the places with fracking is taking off and people are making great money. The U.S. is now the number one oil producing country in the world and scientists are saying that the U.S. may have the largest oil deposits ANYWHERE.
And the left is going berserk over that. Immediately...they put out the "Gasland" movie which isn't a real study. It's a movie where they came into it with a preconceived agenda and then proceeded to "prove" it.
As just an ordinary guy living here in the U.S., it sure does seem that something is very damn fishy about the way the left is so hysterical and exaggerates shit and changes their story every decade or so.
I too, would LOVE to have a solar car, solar home, etc.
Not for the environment (though I do wish it were only for that noble cause)...but because I'm sick of paying for energy use.
And I'm sick of paying for the left to artificially keep gas and oil prices high & discourage new technologies that could make gas and oil plentiful. It's costing all of us in high costs for food, goods...hell EVERYTHING because everything has to be transported.
I'm very, very suspicious of the people who are "against" fracking right out of the gate. They didn't even hesitate to condemn it before it had even started.
And those organizations and their like-minded brethren have been WRONG over and over since the 1970's.
But just in case they are right for the first time...I'm gonna take a "wait and see" approach. Right now I'm leaning toward more jobs, a booming economy, energy independence.