Fracking the Future?

12/27/2012

White House rhetoric about "green collar" jobs and energy independence may have helped President Barack Obama win re-election in November, but will he deliver?

 

An article in the Wall Street Journal notes that the U.S. is adopting an "all of the above" energy approach that relies heavily on natural gas. In fact, we're blasting more gas out of the landscape than ever before, using risky, poorly understood techniques such as fracking. The plan is to increase natural gas extraction worldwide.

Meanwhile, Germany, a country with one-fourth the U.S. population, now employs more workers making PV panels than the entire U.S. Steel Industry.

 

 

 

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