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Years from now, fracking will be looked up as a big mistake, mining anything anywhere, always contaminates the water, years later .. the local groundwaters suffer the same fate.

What I don't get is how conservatives, who are such homophobes, can be in favor of something so gay sounding as "injecting fracking fluids into newly penetrated holes".

everything says

Years from now, fracking will be looked up as a big mistake

Yes, likely by generations of people who will have to live with the contamination left behind by extracting a fraction of a generation worth of energy.

Have you seen the depletion curves of some of these fracking operations?

Dan8267 says

What I don't get is how conservatives, who are such homophobes, can be in favor of something so gay sounding as "injecting fracking fluids into newly penetrated holes".

Whoa - this topic has spun out already. Got to find a way to keep that culture war burning bright hot since Libs can't debate things like math, science and economics without an emotional component.

I guess we can keep funding the nutters in the Middle East and burning their dirtier oil and burn even more carbon shipping the oil halfway around the planet on container ships?

I guess we need to keep spending a ton on our military to keep the sea lanes open and policing the ME to keep the oil flowing?

Better to let those Arabs dirty up their part of the world so us white guys don't have to mess up our homes with icky drilling and pipelines.

socal2 says

Whoa - this topic has spun out already. Got to find a way to keep that culture war burning bright hot since Libs can't debate things like math, science and economics without an emotional component.

Actually, you conservatives can't tell a joke when it bites your ass.

Dan, you are funny. Awesome.

the next meteor strike will replenish the deep carbon based petro, and start the next ice age.
the next ice age, when it melts, will replenish the aquafers.
and then we come out of the caves and do it all over again.