“What the Frack Is Going On?”

by Little Miss Attila on June 28, 2011

Reason magazine injects some sense into the fracking debate.

Tagged as: oil

{ 19 comments… read them below or add one }

ponce June 28, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Geez LMA,

Couldn’t you run propaganda like this on the side with the rest of the ads?

richard mcenroe June 28, 2011 at 4:54 pm

Joy, you gotta remember, you’re posting this in front of people who think climate change causes tsunamis.

You know. Persons Of No Commonsense Ever.

ponce June 28, 2011 at 9:55 pm

Because every single working class Republican oil and coal company shill is a climate scientist, Dick?

How ironic that the victims of Global Climate Change in American tend to be working class Republicans dying from hurricanes, tornadoes, brush fires and floods.

Darrell June 28, 2011 at 10:54 pm

Yet, according to the IPCC–the official pusher for the Left’s agenda–that TOTAL climate change over the last
150 years is less than 1 degree C. Fancy that. 1/150 degrees per year. How can anyone adapt to THAT? Keep that in mind whenever you hear some jackwagon say that some species has already disappeared as a result of global warming, or this or that has already happened. Too bad that universities can’t take degrees back and rip them to pieces.

ponce can now tell us why hurricanes have been falling far short of predictions for the last decade, or why our
deadliest hurricane was the Great Hurricane of 1780 (22,000 fatalities), or why our strongest landfalling hurricane was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (892 hPa), or why the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season had the most major hurricanes on record, or why 1974 set the record for
EF3-EF5 tornados (by far) or why 2010 saw the quietest global hurricane season on record–68 tropical storms, globally, with the average being 92,
or why the jet stream hasn’t weakened as global warming theory would dictate.

Fracking screwed up the Left’s plan to tax the shit out of energy. Supply and demand was supposed to push up the price of natural gas to levels where the tax wouldn’t be noticed, or would seem like a small part. Now, any tax would be the obvious (or only) cause of the misery poor US citizens would experience as they struggle to heat their homes in Winter. That’s why all the Obama-liars were showing up a few years ago to tell you that fracking wouldn’t work, so there was no sense in even trying it. It worked so well that they are on to Plan B–telling everyone to shut it down until we
can be absolutely 100% positive that it is 100% safe, 100% of the time. Like high-speed trains and letting The Muslim Brotherhood take over in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc.

ponce June 29, 2011 at 10:14 am

Puerile,

Admit it.

You’d do anything the oil and gas industry told you to do just because you hate some imaginary group called “The Left” which hasn’t existed in America in 40 years.

As for fracking, if some hillbillies want to sell their childrens’ health to the oil industry in exchange for some money to buy more meth…it’s a free country.

Decent Americans have already banned fracking, and they are working to make sure the unfortunate children of these drug addicts will receive decent health care in the future even though their parents won’t be able to afford it.

Little Miss Attila June 29, 2011 at 10:37 am

Is that what “Americans for High Energy Costs” told you to say?

ponce June 29, 2011 at 11:57 am: Fracking isn’t profitable if oil isn’t very expensive, LMA.

I know you can’t admit it to yourself, but your oil industry pals are the ones who make money when oil prices rise.

Darrell June 29, 2011 at 12:54 pm

Facts are like Kryptonite to you, aren’t they ponce?
The Left is, unfortunately, alive and well and living in every Democrat today.
Bill Ayers says he is a small “c” communist. Why do you doubt him?
Obama himself says he sought out every flavor of Leftie when he was building his own philosophy.
Why do you doubt him?
Decent people have banned hydraulic fracturing?
Where? Obamaland?
Do you even know what it is?
What do drugs have to do with it, besides making people capable of dealing with you?

ponce June 29, 2011 at 1:05 pm: “The Left is, unfortunately, alive and well and living in every Democrat today.”

Is that what the oil companies and Glenn Beck told you, Puerile?

I guess it’s a blessing you canvent your delusions on the internets so you don’t burden your caregivers.
Darrell June 29, 2011 at 1:11 pm: Is that what the oil companies and Glenn Beck told you, Puerile?

No. In fact they never write.
Logic, reason, and facts are the building blocks of my responses.
I know you have never heard of them.

John June 30, 2011 at 4:51 am

ponce,

You have just proven, beyond all doubt, that your opinions have no value.

John June 29, 2011 at 3:33 pm

Uh, ponce, calling your opponents paid shills comes straight out of Animal Farm. If you have something more than name-calling, now is the time to show it.

ponce June 30, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Hahaha John,

Paid?

As James Wolcott pointed out, why would the oil companies pay their poodles for something they desperately need to do for free?

John June 30, 2011 at 6:45 pm

More name-calling. Every wonder why we say you have no ideas?

In any event, your position that people who push for more oil exploration are shills for Big Oil is rather silly. More oil = cheaper oil = lower Big Oil profits.

In fact, by consistently opposing increased oil production, which reduces supply, which increases prices, which increases profits, it appears that the environmental lobby and Al Gore are the shills for Big Oil.

And since they’re not getting paid by Big Oil, it does make them look like unpaid shills. And you, too.

ponce June 30, 2011 at 9:01 pm

Shattering the earth by injecting poisons into the water table isn’t “exploring” it’s exploiting, John.

John July 2, 2011 at 4:51 am: And now you’re changing the subject when you’ve been proven wrong.

And changing it by means of a straw man attack, too. Fracking, when done properly, does not inject poisons into the water table. The errors that cause problems with fracking cause problems with conventional drilling as well.

Perhaps you are simply against all drilling?

ponce June 30, 2011 at 10:56 pm

The Onion gets LMA and her fellow oil acolytes just right:

http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-coal-lobby-warns-wind-farms-may-blow-e,20876/

Darrell July 1, 2011 at 6:09 am: Shouldn’t we be saving all the water for “our children”–
the future generations you are always saving oil for?
Die now, you selfish bastard.

I know you black-hearted fucks want to cull most of the world’s seven billion population to
arrive at your “sustainable” 1.5 billion “pulled-out-of-your-collective–asses” target. But still.
John July 2, 2011 at 4:53 am: You’re quoting deliberately crafted fiction in support of your position.

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