Pete Buttigieg makes a case for Biden's energy policy

[tecelote]

[jaxexpat]

1. That guy is good at this.

[betsuni]

2. K&R

[BootinUp]

3. That snarky fox host had a plan but Pete just

wouldn't go along with it.

[panfluteman]

4. Fracking May Have Helped Us Achieve More Energy Independence, But Ecologically,

It's a total disaster. The main ecological downsides to fracking are:

1) It releases large amounts of Methane, a greenhouse gas that is many times more powerful than CO2 for trapping atmospheric heat.
2) It consumes and pollutes huge amounts of water - water that is otherwise in short supply due to climate change related droughts and increasing human need.
3) Fracking increases earthquakes and seismic activity. I don't know exactly how close fracking gets, geographically speaking, to the Yellowstone caldera / supervolcano, but that's a fool's errand asking for trouble.

So, I hope that fracking's life as a political football is soon coming to an end, and that we will be transitioning out of it sooner rather than later.