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http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/03/economic-benefits-of-fracking http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/03/e... is a go
by JBReefer 11y ago
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/03/economic-benefits-of-fracking http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/03/e... is a good start, but the biggest benefits come from being less reliant on petrostates like Saudi Arabia, Venezula and Russia, as well as causing economic pressure which reduces fundamentalism in the bellicose petrostates.
- r00fus 11y agoInstead, it will create the petrostates in our own country. We still have to buy the end result from energy companies one way or another. The only ones who profit from fracking directly are the energy companies who sell into the commoditized market.