Reply #19: You should check out Gasland and this guy who says he was screwed over by private gas companies.

[joshcryer]

But in some ways I agree with you. The government passes good regulations sometimes, but then those regulations are thrown out the door for some corporations, are they really even relevant anymore? My state is blue, thanks to people like me moving here (Colorado turned blue due to an influx of yuppies and immigrants, it will not go red again), but I fear that it'll be a long while yet before we can get politicians who actually do the right thing.

In that vein we're fucked. It doesn't help that the people on the Energy and Minerals committee openly admit their ties to the gas and oil industry, and likely use their open, public, relationship in political ads. It doesn't help that the fucking people voting for these same people actually buy it.

But don't think that the gas industry isn't getting away with bullshit, and don't think that they'll ever pay back those people that they harmed.