Wake up, grow up, and ignore the watermelons.

These “new ideas” are naturally inferior to all of the “old ideas,” because the “old ideas” were based on actual knowledge, actual experience, and actually solved a problem and contributed to the advance of society. The perpetrators of the dysfunctional “new ideas” actually revel in their dysfunctionality and claim they are “making a difference”: boldly implying that a “difference” is somehow automatically a morally-superior improvement.

But and people who run around firebombing society insisting that we tear down everything which makes society work and replace it with things which cannot possibly ever work are simply destructive societal vandals and arsonists.

These people were formerly called “fools,” “heretics,” “buffoons,” “kooks,” or “criminals”: now we just call them “Liberals.”

Did you also think that Al Gore’s ‘Convenient Lie’ was also a documentary?

Slowburn on February 19, 2011 at 5:54 PM

Not even close to the same thing by any stretch of the imagination.

But thanks for playing.

Cheap natural gas makes alternative energy too expensive to use.

juliesa on February 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM

How can that be, when EPA is funding developers to build wind machines to run the wind turbines when the wind doesn’t blow.

Follow the link above to see a video that illustrates the horizontal drilling and fracturing procedures.

FlatFoot on February 19, 2011 at 4:48 PM

Did you also think that Al Gore’s ‘Convenient Lie’ was also a documentary?

I was completely unaware and I had no idea until I watched Gasland.

The film of some of the energy corporation bigwigs attending hearings and inquiries on the State and Federal levels where hydraulic fracturing and other drilling and collection practices by the giant energy corporations were being investigated, and their unwillingness to answer direct questions and divulge information that are so-called ‘trade secrets’ was also quite telling. Their lack of candor, to me, was very telling indeed. It was very reminiscent of the old Tobacco corporation hearings of not so long ago.

However, despite the bad taste left behind after seeing the visuals and watching/hearing the corporate bigwigs choke on their refusals to answer simple questions and divulge some very pertinent information as to the chemicals and processes they use and ultimately dump into evaporation pits in the once pristine wilderness, after watching the entire thing start to finish, I was left feeling hungry for more information– and a bit angry too.

This is about a whole helluva lot more than just water coming out of the spigot that you can light on fire. Based on what I saw and heard with my own eyes and ears in Gasland compared to what I’ve just read here in this post by Jazz Shaw, I am now left feeling like this post is a some attempt, and a weak attempt at that, to deflect from what is probably more than likely the actual truth.

…and I’m still left hungry hungry for more information.

With the Left defiantly choking off every practical domestic source of energy, even the clean ones, it requires a willful suspension of common sense not to attribute anti-capitalist, anti-American motives. It almost compels the conclusion that environment issues are mainly camouflage for a global redistribution of power, privilege and money.

petefrt on February 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM

Yep. I wish someone would make a documentary about that.

All this sudden hysteria over frac’ing (the lefties learned a new word, and they’re so excited over it, it’s kind of cute!)…

juliesa on February 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM

Lesson learned. Call the next retrieval system democrating.

Obviously the result of hydraulic fracturing by the British. No wonder we revolted. It wasn’t the tea, it was the methane!

JSchuler on February 19, 2011 at 1:05 PM
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Beautiful, I love it!!!!

Obviously the result of hydraulic fracturing by the British. No wonder we revolted. It wasn’t the tea, it was the methane!

With the Left defiantly choking off every practical domestic source of energy, even the clean ones, it requires a willful suspension of common sense not to attribute anti-capitalist, anti-American motives. It almost compels the conclusion that environment issues are mainly camouflage for a global redistribution of power, privilege and money.

petefrt on February 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM

Well, duh. The so-called “environmental movement” was founded and continues to be run by a lot of dedicated Marxists who think they can use “environmental protection” as the wedge to shut down capitalism once and for all. They have effectively played on people’s fears, and used Hollywood as an important propaganda tool to generate fears about everything from nuclear power the internal combustion engine. If “The China Syndrome” had never been made, we would probably have about 20 times the number of nuclear power plants than we have in America today.

Heh.

Fracking fluid is 99% water and sand.
Fracking is safe, per the EDF:

Interviewer: Do you believe that this technique can be used safely?

Scott Anderson (Senior Policy Advisor at the Environmental Defense Fund): Yes, I do. I think in the vast majority of cases, if wells are constructed right and operated right, that hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem.