Behind the Vote

Admittedly, I've not done much research on the subject. However, I live in an area that has begun this in the past 2 years. We went from almost never having seismic activity, to having earthquakes we can actually feel!! This makes me worried, and I plan to research much more.

Why wouldn't moms from the south know anything about it? I guess you didnt realize that Houston, TX is known for its oil and gas industry.

I don't trust a company that has to hirer former military intelligence officers who specialize in psycological warfare to convince the American public that Fracking is a good and anyone who opposes it is crazy environmentalists

Watch "Gasland". Watch people light their water on fire because of the contamination of fracking to the supply.

Well, of course it's going to do some harm. It means having to use artificial means to plumb the earth. Water is no less harmful, it is earth's most destructive, ubiquitous solvent. Then using PsyOps to sell it?

This sounds like the basis for another Erin Brokovitch movie.

Sigh.. Gas land... Watch truth land next.. It debunks some of gas land. They arent lighting the water due to fracking chemicals but to methane and most people in my area have been able to do that for, oh, about 100 years... Get educated...

Sigh.. Gas land... Watch truth land next.. It debunks some of gas land. They arent lighting the water due to fracking chemicals but to methane and most people in my area have been able to do that for, oh, about 100 years... Get educated...

It seems to be a viable source of energy. "Green" energy has its drawbacks, as well - windmills kill birds and are noisy and ugly (to some). Solar is extremely expensive, and to power a large area, would take prohibitively large tracts of land for the panels. Ethanol (the pride of my own state), requires us to give up some of our own food to fuel our cars, and has been accused of being less efficient, and truly more expensive (without the ever-present subsidies) than regular fuel.

So, for now, this might be the best solution we have to take the U.S. away from being dependent upon Foreign Oil. I would LOVE to see us be able to just shoot the finger at the Middle East, Venezuela and other 'hostile' regions who regularly rook us for the oil we need.

And while that's happening, I have no objection to the continued research into wind, water, solar energies, and I'd like to throw nuclear in with it, as well. We should be looking at ALL of them, and finding the best way to move forward without banning any of them.

If we frack all the oil available in the US, we will only meet half of our oil need so we will still be using foreign oil UNLESS we start implementing alternatives now. Solar at a local level is really effective. Local as in at each house and not having to be transmitted many miles. Also, how can you equate wind turbines as being worse than an oil well? Or how many animals are killed in oil spills? Lots and lots more than any turbine will do.

Is solar expensive, yes. However as demand goes up, so does production which in turn causes prices to fall. Any new technology is expensive in the beginning like cell phones, vcrs, DVD players, etc.

Wind is actually five times more expensive than solar right now so that is why our house is only getting solar but eventually we will be adding wind.

Here is a great website on the Alberta Cananda tar sands before and after. Look at it and then tell me how damaging you think it really is.

Yes, oil and other fossil fuels have been a great boon to our society, but now it is time to aggressively pursue energy production that is self sustaining (wind, solar) that will ensure our energy security.

Here is the link that did not get pasted in my previous post: http://northernrockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com/tar-sandkearl-module-faq/