@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 4:40

Fracking: Pro or Con?

Now, I do have to bring up the irony of Trump supporting fracking. As of four years ago, he was promoting coal, bringing coal jobs back, which really hasn't happened. But now supporting fracking fracking is probably one of the main reasons that a lot of coal plants or a lot of I'm sorry, power plants have converted from coal to natural gas. But irony aside, I want to understand the pros and cons of fracking. What is good about it, what is bad about it?

Fracking has been a major issue in this election. Should we be doing it? Why or why not?

@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:44
Regardless, I think going ahead, hopefully with a major change in the powers in the government at every branch right now, I would hope that green technologies get a lot more support. And I think once there's enough momentum with green technologies, Fracking will die in natural death, if anything. And as to whether really it's good or bad, I would say it's just like how we have gone back to organic food
@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 3:19
And I remember the governor of Montana had come up with a method that the Germans had actually used where you're pumping in carbon dioxide to pump up it's either natural gas or oil. But he had said, hey, this only makes sense at a certain dollar amount. And I forget what the break even point is, but that's what I've always thought is, hey, we should do it if it makes economic sense and not too much damage to the environment
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Samuel Lacuna
@Sarlax · 5:00
And pardon me, the volatility of oil prices kept the United States involved in any number of conflicts where its interest otherwise really didn't say it should be there. But oil always got our attention. Fracking releases the grip of oil, at least to an extent that has been held over the United States. And the value of that cannot be understated. The fact that we can also change our own franking levels to essentially compete with oil production
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Bernie Goldbach
@topgold · 1:37

Franking offers inexpensive energy.

It's just the opposite of a behavior change you'd want someone to make in an era of global warming, he's burning more power because it's so cheap to do it. And he thanks the President for that. So he's voting to maintain his lifestyle. Cheap trucking. And that's why I think it's become an issue for a lot of people. They see it as a way to cut costs and to increase their quality of life through cheap energy. That's right there
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Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 1:56

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Hello, Phil. Thank you for this. Well, even as I watch the United States going into polls over the next week and wonder about the outcome, I know for sure that the stance that the incoming government government would take with regard to fracking could well indicate how the rest of the world chooses to approach this
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