[bestintxas]

The enviro wackos, in their quest to return us to the stone age, conveniently forget that it is called 'natural' gas for a reason. It is as natural as a tree or a bird.

It is just one of the many gifts God gave man to make it on this earth.

[exDemMom]

“Environmental” activists want us all to live primitive, dirty, and disease-ridden lifestyles. Yet the environment is far cleaner in developed countries, where people have the desire and the means to keep the environment clean. You don’t find much concern over the environment where people are struggling to survive, where the fate of that old-growth forest is inconsequential compared to the need to find food for today.

[DocRock]

Tree huggers have finally shut down the Paradise Fossil Fuel Power Plant in my home county. They donated $10,000,000.00 per year to the county school board, above and beyond taxes and fees supporting them. Charity, which paid salaries and purchased equipment, structures and buses. So, I have a cousin with stage 4 cancer that teaches in this school system that is losing her job and good insurance. These tree huggers are going to kill her... literally.

[Shady]

Gas land has been proven to be total Bull Merd. Should not even be discussed except for the lies it has perpetuated. And yes, I have a summer home in the Fracking zone and we all all alright thank you. You should see the economic calamity where I live the rest of the time, Southern Tier of NY where the growth industries are unemployment and heroin addiction. Thanks Prince Andrew.

[texas_mrs]

Abiotic? My daughter is studying to be a geologist and I asked her what is said about this. She said they haven’t mentioned it. That they only study WHERE and HOW to find oil and gas, not where it comes from. Seems like a no-brainer to me that you would learn that FIRST.

[MuttTheHoople]

Big Oil did more to save the whales than all the Environmental Groups put together. Until we found oil, the primary source of oil in the world was from whale blubber.

[thackney]

Debunking GasLand
http://energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Debunking-GasLand.pdf

The link above will address falsely shown topics in the movie Gasland such as:

Misstating the Law

Misrepresenting the Rules

Mischaracterizing the Process

Flat-Out Making Stuff Up

Recycling Discredited Points from the Past

Also see:

FLASHBACK: ENERGY EXPERTS DEBUNK ‘GASLAND’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2013/04/24/flashback-debunking-gasland/

Fact Checking Josh Fox / Gasland, 1st Posting
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/02/1220728/-Fact-Checking-Josh-Fox-Gasland-1st-Posting

Josh Fox’s claim stating that the Society of Petroleum Engineers says that 35% of the world’s oil and gas wells are leaking is a total and complete fabrication.

Fact Checking Josh Fox/Gasland #2; Oil/Gas Industry NOT Exempt from Clean Air/Clean Water Acts
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/07/1221731/-Fact-Checking-Josh-Fox-Gasland-2-Oil-Gas-Industry-NOT-Exempt-from-Clean-Air-Clean-Water-Acts

Contrary to Gasland claims, there is no exemption contained in the Federal Clean Water Act that is a categorical exemption of the oil and gas industry from jurisdiction under the Act for hydraulic fracturing process wastewater.....another Gasland falsehood.

Fact Checking Josh Fox/Gasland #3-EPA Enforcement Case Shows Gas Industry Bust Under Clean Water Act
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/18/1224787/-Fact-Checking-Josh-Fox-Gasland-3-EPA-Enforcement-Case-Shows-Gas-Industry-Bust-Under-Clean-Water-Act

The enforcement action by EPA and DOJ could never have taken place if ExxonMobil’s hydraulic fracturing activities were exempt from the Clean Water Act as claimed in the Josh Fox conflation/fabrication bubble. If the oil and gas industry were exempted from the Clean Water Act, there would be no jurisdiction for those agency’s involvement in a federal Clean Water Act surface water discharge enforcement case.

What this illustrates for Democrats is that using the Gasland entertainment workproduct as a basis for any kind of decision about real world matters is like Democrats tolerating anti-science campaigns aimed at rejection of immunizations for public health protection or Democrats tolerating anti-abortion legislation promoted in an anti-science campaign really intended to drag all women down.

Gasland Debunked Even in New York Times!
http://www.jlcny.org/site/index.php/gasland-the-movie/586-gasland-debunked-even-in-new-york-times

Gasland’s Fracking Nonsense
http://www.energytribune.com/6907/gaslands-fracking-nonsense#sthash.Wqd4ymiI.dpbs

[cymbeline]

This is not a criticism of you but the excerpt you posted doesn’t give a moral case for use of fossil fuels.

The writer and most other opinion writers waste our time discussing the good guys and the bad guys and the smart guys and the dumb guys.