The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind the Gas Boom

According to this story by Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone Magazine, the fracking boom is not only toxic, it's also a financial shell game.

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[deerhawk]

two words... Hubbert Curve
Complacency is a tough addiction to quit. It lulls the mind into a false sense, and, in general allows individuals like this to do what they do.
People should say "no" more often... but they don't

[Thinker]

Dear Rolling Stone author,

It must be nice to recieve a paycheck from your boss by writing anit-drilling nonsense within the confines of a natural gas heated home or office. Do you happen to have a better idea? WInd power is created by big ugly windmills that will cause an eye-sore to those who enjoy the beauty of the untouched praires. Solar power requires millions of solar cells that will take up large expanses of prisitne sun drenched desert....ravaging mother natures natural beauty. And electricity is largely produced from turbine driven dams on our once free flowing rivers. So if we blow up all the dams, put up thousands of wind farms, and cover our deserts with solar cells then we have a solution? Do a little research about how much actual energy is created from the last three "green energy" solutions above. They don't even begin to scratch the surface in terms of how much energy the world needs to keep its life blood flowing. Here's an idea...why don't we just regulate the gas industry a little more and convert our automobiles to run on compressed natural gas like the millions of cars in the rest of the world already do? Less dependence on foreign oil and more jobs domestically. It baffles me that the Detroit automakers haven't done this already. Even if only a third of the autos were converted it would help out a lot. And it would save us a lot more at the pump. People need to wake the f.... up.

[FMS]

Really thinker I think u need to slow down and think a little more befor you talk. U compare fracking to solar and wind with the argument of being a eyesore. I think your "safe" fracking methods are far more detrimental to the earth than wind or solar. The dams I agree with u, there now doing more harm than good. We need to concentrate our greatest minds and come up with other options, example the bloom box. With so many brilliant minds im the world this should be a no brainer. But it's big corporations (like natural gas, oil, coal, ect) that keep such things in the dark. Its not for any of us, it's for profit. Change means money, especially if your business is scrapped for better and cleaner ways. Just thinking.