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Curmudgeoness

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4. They invent the word, then they don't like it

Reply to JPZenger (Original post)

Mon Oct 28, 2013, 07:40 PM

Oct 2013

when we use it. Typical. I agree with NYC_SKP, unconventional gas is the product and fracking is the technique used to get the unconventional gas.

No fracking way that I am letting go of that word. It has taken us a long time to educate people on what it is.

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It is no longer "fracking," it is "Unconventional Gas" [View all] JPZenger Oct 2013 OP

No. It's still fracking and fracking is how they get to some forms of unconventional gas. NYC_SKP Oct 2013 #1

It's not "High-Fructose Corn Syrup". It's "Corn Sugar". (Almost had happened.) DetlefK Oct 2013 #2

too poor branding huh? gopiscrap Oct 2013 #3

They invent the word, then they don't like it Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #4