Fracking is a huge environmental and human threat. Why does Obama support it?

[malthaussen]

35. Yep. Show me the money.

Although I do believe some government funds have gone to alternative energy providers? Wasn't there a bit of a scandal about that some while back?

But answer me this. Say you were President. (Horrible notion, I know; I wouldn't have the job for anything) You need to keep 330 million Americans (or whatever the current figure is) in cheap gas, cheap heating oil, and a largely-efficient energy grid (despite the odd 4-day power outage like the one I just experienced. How are you gonna do it? In the here-and-now? What sources are you gonna rely on? Today and tomorrow, not five years from now? I have to believe there is some element of "stuckage," if you will, whatever mendacity there may be in play that neither you nor I are really competent to judge.

But yeah. Some money would be nice. Some indication that there is a future plan that isn't just more-of-the-same.

-- Mal