Fracking accident, thanks to Chevron. How do they respond? Free pizza coupons.

[TaraJo]

I love when the conversation reaches this point and someone starts talking about solar and wind. Great, love it, but the reality is that it cannot keep up with demand and no it's not because we don't invest enough in it; it's because we consume too much. I love nuclear power, but the same people that ignorantly bitch about fracking are equally terrified of nuclear power.

I think a large part of why solar and wind can't keep up with fossil fuels is because we haven't invested in research and development in either of those two at anywhere near the same rate we have with fossil fuels. Those, plus hydro-electric plus geothermal plus, yes, even nuclear, those have potential to be very useful if we would do further research on how to get the most out of them. Heck, even bio fuels have potential if we were more willing to shake our oil addiction, challenge the status quo and actually make some changes for the better. Unfortunately, oil companies are making a ton of money with things the way they are and they don't want to change things because they might make less money because of it. There are so many other energy options for us, so why aren't we pursuing them instead of sucking on Chevrons' teat?

Not to mention, their cheesy (pun kinda intended) method of recompence towards a town for putting them in pretty bad danger pisses me off. If there's a huge fire in the middle of my town and it's already killed one person and emergency crews have to spend days getting it under control, I don't want a pizza; I want someone to make sure this doesn't happen again. Yet, any regulations that would prevent these accidents are dismissed as communism.

As for fracking itself, I can't say I know enough about it to know whether it's good or bad, but even if it's bad, that's just the icing on the cake.