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DirkGently

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15. Ah, but now they have "fracking."

Reply to Amimnoch (Reply #13)

Mon Jul 7, 2014, 12:31 PM

Jul 2014

I always liked that tack, too, but we are now already a "net exporter," because of all the natural gas being pumped through people's drinking water and into industry pockets.

And the next big talking point is how soon (after decades of expensive, theoretical development) we'll be exporting all the wonderful new natural gas to the Ukraine and so forth.

I'd love to see Middle East oil reserves become irrelevant because everyone has renewable energy. But until every drop of cheap, dirty fossil fuel has been turned into cash, we will have to fight for every millimeter.

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