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In reply to the discussion: Fracking is a huge environmental and human threat. Why does Obama support it? [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)38. I'll let the President tell you himself:
So you see, it's not because he's not worried about the health implications on the poor, the elderly, the infirmed, and the children. And its not because he's not worried about the environmental risks or the devastation that an inland BP-like oil spill would cause.
And it's got nothing to do with national security or the economy since all the oil goes to Europe and all the profits go to Canada and the Koch Brothers. Yes. He is enriching the Koch Brothers when he could throw every roadblock in the book at them. Instead, he helps them. The sworn enemies of democracy. So the only way I can see that his not caring about any of these things makes any sense, why none of these things seem to bother him, is because he just doesn't give a shit.
- For the life of me I can't understand why this is so hard for people to see. If his initials were GWB, we wouldn't have any problems understanding this at all. Maybe that's why. We just don't want to believe it. So we close our eyes. Which is exactly how we got in this position to begin with.......
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Fracking is a huge environmental and human threat. Why does Obama support it? [View all]
cali
Feb 2014
OP
But his former Interior Secretary says it has not “created an environmental problem for anyone”
jsr
Feb 2014
#2
But many experts in the field- as demonstrated in my OP- are quite clear about the dangers
cali
Feb 2014
#9
Only a know it all can afford to go through life without ever "trusting" the experts
treestar
Feb 2014
#11
Anyone who has ever worked in the oil fields knows the main issue with fracking is Chinese steel.
Drahthaardogs
Feb 2014
#18
Supporters would have a lot more credibility if they would ever demand the "easy" answers
TheKentuckian
Feb 2014
#43
For the same reasons he supports mandating everyone to buy corporate insurance
solarhydrocan
Feb 2014
#30
I think it is too. I'm much more concerned about the explosive growth of fracking that Keystone
cali
Feb 2014
#47
what rankles so, is that President Obama says the right things (frequently) about environmental
cali
Feb 2014
#67
He supports it because big money wants it and so what they want is what he does. nt
arthritisR_US
Feb 2014
#70