Forum Post: Don't Frack me Bro . . .
Posted 12 years ago on Feb. 1, 2012, 9:14 p.m. EST by Toynbee
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from Savannah, GA
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Congress or at least the Republicans who have been bought by the lobbyists, are rigging the Congressional hearing about Hydro-Fracking.
This is shameful. Then they evict the award-winning director of an anti-fracking movie.
What kind of democracy do we have?
Great post.
http://gaslandthemovie.com
Look at the website to see the map.
Pollution is always more important when it's where you live. The map of where the gas "resource" may look like a gold mine, but which is more valuable, a country with drinking water or one with fracking?
Don't Frack me Bro:
All it takes is a little contamination of Fracking Liquids to wreck a water aquifer forever. Will those trillions of gallons of Fracking Liquid remain where they are? Will they seep and migrate? Monitoring this stuff for a year or two is absolutely not long enough when our valuable drinking water aquifers are threatened.
the fuckers
It's a democracy owned and operated by WallStreet.
I thought you knew?
OccupyWallStreet!!!!!
I would like to know what the general opinion is regarding our future energy policy. Nuclear was an option until Japan's earthquake. No offshore drilling after the gulf oil spill. Obama axed the Keystone pipeline. Wind power is an option. Wait, china owns the majority of the rare earth metals that are required to build the wind turbines. California has a decent mine, but that would anger the environmentalists.
so what is the viable option for our future energy needs?
I think Stephen Chu the Energy Secretary needs to dramatically ramp up the federal research dollars on all the technologies and potential technologies:
Wind
Even "Fracking"
Then of course there are proven technologies for reducing the need for energy, such as conservation, and demand-side-management.
All of these things should be studied for new cutting edge technologies. We could cut our energy costs going forward big time.
Believe it or not, when the price of gas goes up over 3-4 dollars, it makes research into alternative energy more enticing.
Minimizing the carbon footprint should help with conservation
The keystone pipeline is not about keeping oil for Americans it's about making it easier to export oil out of America ---------look it up. They are allowing more oil drilling in the gulf ---that news was out a few days ago. Rare earth metals are common we just haven't invested much money into mining them because China is smart and we have become stupid.
Ha, "Don't Frack me Bro",that was funnier than shit.
However I say "Frac 'n Roll". Bring it on,the more oil production the better.
This should be the next OWS chant:
DRILL,FRAC,REFINE,DRILL,FRAC,REFINE,DRILL,FRAC,REFINE!!
Have you filed as a registered lobbyist yet?