Biden Says Fracking Jobs Won't Be 'on the Chopping Block' If He's Elected

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. How many jobs are in the fracking industry anyway?

I know that the renewable energy field's jobs are, or at least had been, growing by leaps and bounds.

Trying desperately to preserve jobs in a dying industry is pointless.

Think about telephone operators. In the early years of phones, every single call had to be placed through an operator. Then people could dial locally, but all long-distance calls had to go through an operator. Then we got direct dial within the country, but overseas calls needed to go through an operator, and lots of long-distance calls in this country still made use of an operator.

I went to work for Ma Bell in 1967. The woman who trained me had started some fifty years earlier as a teenager. She once said, and I expect this was accurate, that if all calls still needed to go through an operator, by 1967 essentially every woman in the country would need to be a telephone operator.

Progress, everyone, progress.