Fracking As The Next Financial Meltdown (Or Not)

Sep 04, 2018 at 12:22 PM CST + 1
Shale fracking carries a political odor all its own, just as food whose genes were modified by primitive people is more acceptable that food modified—gasp—by scientists. As an example, the Massachusetts Sierra Club opposes gas pipeline expansion because “The pipelines are being built to take fracked gas to off-shore facilities in the US and Canada for export.” Like many gas pipeline opponents, they apparently think that natural gas is homeopathic, that is, the methane molecules have a memory of how they were produced.

Sep 04, 2018 at 12:22 PM CST

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Shale fracking carries a political odor all its own, just as food whose genes were modified by primitive people is more acceptable that food modified—gasp—by scientists. As an example, the Massachusetts Sierra Club opposes gas pipeline expansion because “The pipelines are being built to take fracked gas to off-shore facilities in the US and Canada for export.” Like many gas pipeline opponents, they apparently think that natural gas is homeopathic, that is, the methane molecules have a memory of how they were produced.