Of course they could have. So by the same reasoning, people in China must put up with polluted cities as an inevitibilty? I have to know that hydraulic fractur

Of course they could have. So by the same reasoning, people in China must put up with polluted cities as an inevitibilty? I have to know that hydraulic fracturing hasn't caught on in China. The barriers are bizarre, but they're still barriers. With fracking, those could be gas fired plants. We're talking < $10B in investment to fix that problem. So why don't they?