Coronavirus May Kill Our Fracking Fever Dream

As I understand it, fracking doesn't even make economic sense at $70+ oil... The whole industry uses accounting scams to stay alive.

Fracking produces lots of methane and pollutes lots of water while being expensive, we can do away with it.

> Coronavirus May Kill Our Fracking Fever Dream

So at a time where Coronavirus has showed us the importance of supply chains not being overseas for national security we are learning to not be energy independent?

It's almost like someone takes a premise "Fracking is bad" and adds words around it to keep people happy with that premise and gets... clicks?

I don't think the article is suggesting that the US not be energy independent but rather just that fracking isn't providing that.

Energy independence matters when oil is scarce and trades at $100/barrel or more. Not when oil trades at $20/bbl and there are places where it has a negative price.

It matters, but not at the cost of polluted groundwater, people getting sick, and triggering earthquakes. There are other ways; nuclear, solar, and wind are among them.

Fracking is expensive and dirty and benefits the worst types of people in the US.