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Gas Boom Projected to Last for Decades

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Re: Gas Boom Projected to Last for Decades

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This is based on an enormous unproven assumption, which is that fracking can be done without incurring catastrophic environmental costs. Coal mining and cigarettes look economical too as long as you foist the real costs onto the general population.

Re: Gas Boom Projected to Last for Decades

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  > U.S. natural-gas production will accelerate over the next three decades, new research indicates
The graph seems to indicate a slowing rate of increase? Of course, it only shows gas as a percentage of US production, and I guess oil and coal production is projected to go down -- so the only way for the graph to be negative was if gas was depleted sooner than oil and gas?

Re: Gas Boom Projected to Last for Decades

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This is based on an enormous unproven assumption, which is that fracking can be done without incurring catastrophic environmental costs. Coal mining and cigarettes look economical too as long as you foist the real costs onto the general population.

I found this short fracking discussion enlightening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW_xJqPjE_I#!
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