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In reply to the discussion: Ain't it great to have an environmentally conscious President? Feds Approve More Fracking [View all]n2doc
(47,953 posts)16. Like we ever had a choice
I can't think of anyone since Al Gore who made it past the primaries and would have done differently, or worse.
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Ain't it great to have an environmentally conscious President? Feds Approve More Fracking [View all]
cali
Feb 2014
OP
Eventually, we'll all be living in a chemical dump. ... not too hard to see where
RKP5637
Feb 2014
#1
I don't know what it's "considered," but I can READ IT and tell it's a band-aid on a gut wound
Scootaloo
Feb 2014
#103
It's not going to be easy to hold the Senate when the president is driving away voters
Doctor_J
Feb 2014
#122
One of my major differences with the President is his all-of-the-above energy policy.
TheMathieu
Feb 2014
#6
Yes, I imagine it is quite easy to be coolly dismissive of fracking if it is not in one's back yard.
djean111
Feb 2014
#8
Who would've thought that there'd be a downside to Obama's corporatist ideology?
Romulox
Feb 2014
#13
Wow, how easy it must be for some folks to dismiss all that has been done for the environment
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#9
a Bush policy embraced by this adminstration, now found to be based on unsettled science
G_j
Feb 2014
#19
thank you for that. I genuinely believe that much of the irrational criticism here on DU comes from
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#17
North Carolina Republicans destroyed DECADES of progress in a matter of MONTHS.
WorseBeforeBetter
Feb 2014
#57
some of us "troll types here to divide" have been here for over 10 fucking years..
frylock
Feb 2014
#72
You aren't a troll type. Sorry, you're just a regular person with an opinion who expresses it.
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#73
Now anti-fracking is "trolling". Just like being against torture and war and mandatory for-profit
Doctor_J
Feb 2014
#78
I was making general statements about certain types of behavior. Being against fracking, drones
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#102
And spying on American citizens, prosecuting whistleblowers, drone strikes, free trade...
cui bono
Feb 2014
#87
So you don't refute those issues then? When you resort to petty name calling you've clearly lost.
cui bono
Feb 2014
#95
Sad thing is that we can't keep using traditional forms of energy and expect a clean environment.
L0oniX
Feb 2014
#25
Yep, party has become mainly a tool of the One Percent in both parties
woo me with science
Feb 2014
#62
I like the idea of having gasoline, reasonably priced electricity and natural gas to heat with.
badtoworse
Feb 2014
#48
Gas now for no water later, fucking stupid and anti - stewardship. FUCK THE FUTURE!
TheKentuckian
Feb 2014
#133
I have confidence that technology will be developed to provide us with both
badtoworse
Feb 2014
#134
Supporters of fracking have no solutions for the damage done in the here and now or in the future
TheKentuckian
Feb 2014
#137
Many of us have taken a small step this fall when natural gas prices went sky high. We stopped
jwirr
Feb 2014
#31
Good guestion. I do not own the home I live in and they changed to using their electrical heat and
jwirr
Feb 2014
#65
Yeah, it's grand. I'm one of those "one issue" voters nowadays. Climate Change being it.
raouldukelives
Feb 2014
#35
Spiking the EPA's own report connecting fracking to water contamination was big clue.
pa28
Feb 2014
#43
Did you comment on these permit applications when they were submitted?
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#50
To have any impact on agency actions, it's necessary to comment on proposed agency actions
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#69
You can't influence agency decisions without commenting on agency actions
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#120
Ain't it great having Bush/Cheney environmental laws and an obstructionist GOP House
Coyotl
Feb 2014
#53
Why did AP have to go throught FOIA to get the information? Was it secret?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2014
#60
And in California, no less. A state well-known for its geologic stability.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#97
Droughts everywhere and aquifers are drying out, but hey, let's allow more fracking!!!!!111111
Vashta Nerada
Feb 2014
#107
"new oil leases have been prohibited since the 1980s" "grandfathered-in platforms. "
Sunlei
Feb 2014
#139