>Because it represents energy freedom for the US and greenie, statist, control freaks cannot stand the idea of an abundant energy source which directly threatens their vision of all property being public and covered with windmills and solar panels providing minimal and extremely expensive energy to the subjugated masses.
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>Fracking is dangerous because there SO much oil/gas to be acquired. More than we've even have a clue about.
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>The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday that the Marcellus Shale region contains some 84 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, recoverable natural gas, far more than thought nearly a decade ago.
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>Tuesday's figure is much higher than the last government assessment in 2002, which suggested about 2 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas.
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>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/USGS-boosts-amount-of-apf-2776982124.html?x=0&.v=2

Agent Orange was a really effective solution to weeds.

People just got in the way.