Methane leaks could negate climate benefits of US natural gas boom: report

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4. Extracting More Fossil Fuel is too expensive, too dangerous and totally unnecessary for our energy

If you think that natural gas extracted by fracking is better than coal or oil, I think you need to look again. If you look at the NY Times "Drilling Down" series, the articles and stories in the StateImpact.NPR.org/PA and read the research of Jacobson and Delucchi starting with the Nov 2009 issue of Scientific American, the Feb 2011 and the March 2013 issues of Energy Policy, you can only come to the conclusion that fossil fuel is too dangerous, too expensive and totally unnecessary for our energy needs. Germany will reach 80% renewable energy by 2016 and shut down all of the nuclear power plants by 2022. Why is it that all the political parties in Germany are united behind this plan, from left to right? The German Parliament building, the Bundestag, is powered by solar and biomass diesel generators fueled with canola oil. In contrast the US Capital Building in Washington, DC is powered by coal. What we lack is not the technology or resources to get off fossil and nuclear fuel, but the political will.