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Coronavirus May Kill Our Fracking Fever Dream
- aaron695 7y ago> Coronavirus May Kill Our Fracking Fever Dream So at a time where Coronavirus has showed us the importance of supply chains not being overseas for national security we are learning to not be energy independent? It's almost like someone takes a premise "Fracking is bad" and adds words around it to keep people happy with that premise and gets... clicks?
- paco3346 7y agoI don't think the article is suggesting that the US not be energy independent but rather just that fracking isn't providing that.
- credit_guy 7y agoEnergy independence matters when oil is scarce and trades at $100/barrel or more. Not when oil trades at $20/bbl and there are places where it has a negative price.
- ThePowerOfFuet 7y agoIt matters, but not at the cost of polluted groundwater, people getting sick, and triggering earthquakes. There are other ways; nuclear, solar, and wind are among them.
- mrscottson 7y agoAs I understand it, fracking doesn't even make economic sense at $70+ oil... The whole industry uses accounting scams to stay alive.
- sudoaza 7y agoFracking produces lots of methane and pollutes lots of water while being expensive, we can do away with it.
- trianglem 7y agoFracking is expensive and dirty and benefits the worst types of people in the US.