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patrice

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8. Fracking is so fucking crazy, one wonders if it wasn't thrown into the mix in order to put pressure

Reply to klook (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 2, 2012, 01:37 PM

Oct 2012

on the other areas, which is really just fucking evil, because fracking also is not a bluff, not even a feint.

This means that, though a deal MUST be made, Environmentalists MUST also hold their ground, because they very well could get NOTHING for compromise.

It's one very very messed up situation, oil technologies have alternative technologies by the throat and they WILL do whatever they want no matter what anyone else tries to deal.

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Will Keystone Pipeline go ahead no matter who is elected? [View all] kimbutgar Oct 2012 OP

The Petroleum Mafia has decreed Keystone will go forward. Raster Oct 2012 #1

Yes it will, and the reason is that profit is king in America, not people or water. 1-Old-Man Oct 2012 #2

Well said! City Lights Oct 2012 #9

Thank you. nt woo me with science Oct 2012 #14

Think about the jobs it wiil create...to hell with planet earth Tippy Oct 2012 #3

Somekind of deal is going to be made. The pieces are: drilling offshore/in protected reserves, patrice Oct 2012 #4

That is the way to look at it. klook Oct 2012 #5

This is also where the Environmental movement MUST put its REAL talent forward. We need patrice Oct 2012 #6

Fracking is so fucking crazy, one wonders if it wasn't thrown into the mix in order to put pressure patrice Oct 2012 #8

More Domestic Oil & Gas production will not lead to energy independence ashling Oct 2012 #11

That makes sense. Any good sources on the economics of that? patrice Oct 2012 #16

It's never gonna happen, ashling Oct 2012 #17

Obama is no environmentalist XemaSab Oct 2012 #7

A LOT depends upon where the center is. Some people might be interested in taking "new" patrice Oct 2012 #10

Yes, and so will cuts to Social Security, education deform, and more wars/police state. woo me with science Oct 2012 #12

Of course, MadHound Oct 2012 #13

Related from the Center for American Progress: pampango Oct 2012 #15

It will go forward and should go forward if the environmental impact bluestate10 Oct 2012 #18

Tar-sand, mined in Canada, transported to Texas, exported to god knows where for Canadian profit 1-Old-Man Oct 2012 #19