muesli
Why the hell wouldn't you want to ban fracking?!
Oct 8, 2020 at 1:39amWeb
Show threadmuesliOct 8, 2020
Meanwhile in most other countries of the world, just mentioning the word fracking is considered political suicide. Probably rightfully so.
Show threadScruffy looking packet herderOct 8, 2020
@fribbledom Basically. To win either of them have to win states who make a lot of money from the practice.
Show threadAsimechOct 8, 2020
@fribbledom The only good thing about fracking is how the term came around by pro-fracking people wanting to make "hydraulic fracturing" sound better.
Yet they came up with a word that sounds like something that would be part of a cartoon villain's plan for world domination/destruction.
Show threadDisgraced Nuclear PhysicistOct 8, 2020
@fribbledom
God, could you imagine living in a halfway decent country
Show threadIzzy's Old AccountOct 8, 2020
@fribbledom two words:
Corporate donations
Show threadPrismatica ⚧Oct 8, 2020
@fribbledom Because it makes you money? I mean that's literally only reason.
Show threadTango, The Wild DreamOct 8, 2020
@fribbledom I want to ban fracking. fracking makes up a lot of jobs in the more rural parts of my state. A LOT.
Show threadKaren COct 8, 2020
@fribbledom Because Pennsylvania is the swing state, and Pennsylvania (at least, the Pennsyltucky portion of it) will not vote for someone who says they'll ban fracking.
Show threadmuesliOct 8, 2020

@gamehawk

Thank you for this valuable information! This is something I actually wasn't aware of.

Show threadKaren COct 8, 2020

@fribbledom Pennsylvania fracking almost certainly has caused earthquakes, at least one of them here in New Jersey, so it's quite the hot topic regionally. I wasn't even fully aware of the dynamic when I lived in Kansas.

Despite (or maybe because of) being legendarily polluted, NJ is extremely concerned about the environment.

Show threadAlvaro FigueroaOct 8, 2020
@fribbledom It's banned here in Costa Rica. As well as future exploration for oil.
Show threadCarl CravensOct 8, 2020
@fribbledom You really like earthquakes?
Show threadMr. TeatimeOct 8, 2020

@fribbledom
The UK still has this story of how it was doing really badly after WW2, with tons of debt and public infrastructure in rubble, and how the economy was saved by oil exploration in the North Sea. So these days, after huge spending cuts to social welfare and local councils, that's what many think about when fracking is mentioned: "we need the money".

I think they're getting economic theory a bit wrong and overestimating the public benefit of handing profits to megacorporations in 2020.

Show threadPixdigitOct 8, 2020
@fribbledom
*Mr. Krabs voice* I like Money
Show threadmoved to @[email protected]Oct 8, 2020
@fribbledom Because you are poor and need a job. There's no point in saving the world if you're going to be on the street next week because of it.

(note: I don't actually support fracking, personally; just trying to get inside the heads of my neighbors)