ApocaDocs: Fracking's magic-bullet moment fading fast

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Posted Sun Jun 15 2014: from Chronicle-Herald:


	Fracking's magic-bullet moment fading fast http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1402791676 I was cruising the Internet a couple of weeks ago when this headline in the Los Angeles Times made my eyes pop: "U.S. officials cut estimate of recoverable Monterey shale oil by 96 per cent." Ninety six per cent! Since the Monterey formation accounts for two-thirds of the supposed reserves available for fracking that would make the U.S. not only energy independent but a powerhouse exporter to the world, this was a big bubble bursting. Amazing that you haven't heard of it, but such is the tenacity of the world's built-in resistance to energy reality.

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'Doc Michael says:

That bubble metaphor is so stale. The fracking ship came in and then left the station of the crossroads when failure was not an option. That's metaphoric flexibility. Got it?

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