What the Frack?!

Fracking is the process where a liquid is injected under high pressure into a deep oil or natural gas well to crack the underground rock layers that then release large quantities of oil or gas. Environmentalists have been warning that the fracking liquid is poisoning our underground water table and we're going to all die, DIE I tell you! Well, deep breath, settle down - not so says the University of Colorado, Boulder.

A new study says that the fracking liquid is pretty harmless. In fact, it compares it to such dangerous liquids in our houses as toothpaste, laxatives, detergent and (shriek!) ice cream! Not good news for the Greenies. 

But then protecting the environment isn't rally the agenda for many of them, it's really about the end of the market-based economy where people make their own economic decisions and its replacement with the rule of the Enlightened Ones to make those decisions for us, like President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Dr. Gruber of MIT, the architect of Obamacare. They know better than we do. Of course they do, unaffected by the weaknesses of human nature like most of us; Philosopher Kings as Plato might say. As my grandson Henry politely says with some frequency, no thank you.

townhall.com/columnists/thomasmiller/2014/11/17/liberal-university-destroys-antifracking-talking-point-n1918979