The Evolving Truth about Fracking for Natural Gas [Updated]

"You seem to be real comfortable asserting points for me that I have never made."- I apoligize if I did, that's how i interpreted your statements.

"I have only asserted that fracking for gas is an acceptable short term solution to importing or drilling for crude."-natural gas is really only used for a few specialize things, heating, combustion turbines, what else..?.. Crude oil is mostly used for transportation fuel, lubrication, medical, plastics, etc, etc.. so I do not understand what you are proposing? You can't substitute natural gas for crude unless youre planning to completely reinvent our infrastructure... why waste the time and money? If you were going to run cars on natural gas, why not pure hydrogen generated from high temperature electrolysis (heard they get really high efficiency). Natural gas has only been used for peek loads historically. Thats because its usually expensive to run, can startup super-fast, and is modular. So anything you propose above and beyond this is going to be expensive new sites; Thus money. Again, your right in that this is the way it will end up going, but I'm trying to tell it is not the right way to go; Economically, environmentally, medically. At best, natural gas could be a substitute for coal, and thats fine if you want to waste the cash for short term profit.. But real renewables are always more profitable in the long term, this is inherent in their design. Thats all I'm trying to tell you here, there is no conceivable reason to continue using fossil fuels other that immediate profit at the cost of all other factors... if youre okay with that, then so be it.

"off fossil fuels in two decades. Do I think it is possible? Sure. Probable? Less likely, and not because the technology does not exist, but because the political will does not exist." - I agree completely, except for where you are laying the blame.. not politicians, businessmen and the politicians they pay off. Again, its important to realize the cancer rate is at 38% now, rising steadily at 3% per decade since 1950... All while smoking rates have dropped steadily by 7% per decade...and this is the cost, so please pardon me if I come off as emotionally vested in this issue.

"reprocessing spent fuel is not the panacea that you claim it is"- never claimed it was, but I do claim that it is the best available option for handling nuclear waste? Nuclear is our best option for transportation (electricity or hydrogen), base load (now mostly coal), reducing healthcare costs, increasing profit and decreasing costs to consumers

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