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Environment & Energy

maxsolomon

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3. It is Human Nature

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 12:46 PM

Dec 2012

to prefer the short term, the self-interested over the long term and the best interests of the whole.

The boom will end, eventually, and the federal taxpayer will be left with the bill.

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Ugh, 89% of North Dakotans support fracking. [View all] Odin2005 Dec 2012 OP

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