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F__king Fracking (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2013
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LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)1. Great illustration of how fracking hurts us all nt
However, it is good to see auto technology finally making a dent in our need for oil. Hybrid and electric vehicles are seeming to be greatly gaining in puchases and popularity.
That image pretty much hits it spot on.
... fracking is done for oil, but mostly it's about natural gas.
Agony
(2,605 posts)5. Yeah that's why 30% of the nat gas in ND is being flared off.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2012/0713/Thanks-to-North-Dakota-US-waste-of-natural-gas-grows-rapidly
corporation don't give a shit about anything but dollars and their stock price. Fracking is about the commodification of gas leases not energy security or energy independence or clean fuels...
it is not about natural gas it is about making as many dollars as possible as fast as possible and everybody else be damned.
corporation don't give a shit about anything but dollars and their stock price. Fracking is about the commodification of gas leases not energy security or energy independence or clean fuels...
it is not about natural gas it is about making as many dollars as possible as fast as possible and everybody else be damned.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)9. That was a great rant...
...but had nothing to do with my post. I really do not care. You can have the last word if you like.
patrice
(47,992 posts)4. Those who are doing this are counting on having enough money to buy their own way out
of whatever happens to Earth. FUCK the rest of us.
One wonders how whatever happened in our financial sector in '08 may have evolved into the fact that these Frackers MUST deliver or receive a visit from their own Goodfellas, for financial paybacks.
Romney was supposed to do it for them. He failed, so now "there will be blood" . . . MORE blood, that is.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)7. Fraking gas-holes. n/t