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Permalink Reply by essay on February 13, 2011 at 12:10

These tactics are the same kind of moral blackmail frequently used in politics, i.e., "if you're for natural gas you're ok with polluting aquifers and letting people's houses get blown up."

 

As others have pointed out, number of accidents and sheer body count aren't really the issue, it's that generally the national media buys into the fantasy of clean coal, wind, solar, and electric cars... and natural gas threatens that fantasy.

Permalink Reply by Stevew on February 12, 2011 at 9:53

there are risks to all forms of energy production. I would love to see a list of big trucks carrying gasoline that wreck on the Interstate - but those stories don't make the headlines - EXPLOSIONS do.  Explosions and burning homes get people's attention.

 

Here on the West Coast people are getting scared as hell of natural gas explosions.  They worry about old pipes and sabotage. Yes, it's a big problem that will effect NG use. Yes, we must deal with it or else ...

 

 

 

 

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