Fracking is freeing us from overseas oil dependence. This is a huge development in our strategy and we should expand fracking and natural gas exploration within the 50 states.
JoMa
Fracking has been around for a long time. What has really increased our oil production is the development of thin layers of oil bearing strata using horizontal guided drilling.
Drilling an old vertical hole through a 10-foot thick deposit didn’t produce much oil. Drilling horizontally for hundreds of feet does! And I think these deposits are “tighter”, so require more fracking.
Keep in mind that these deposits are thousands of feet below the ground water. Oh - and these deposits already have a contaminant in them - oil!