The mainstream media is quite excited about gas prices. They shout that prices are heading towards $4 a gallon. I have some experience in this. When I moved to America about 8 years ago, gas prices were also heading towards $4. No major media outlet has reported that gas prices will now remain essentially unchanged for almost 10 years. And they won’t tell you that any augment in gas prices due to summer driving and the discovery of state-run dictatorships by Iran and Venezuela does not lead to very productive oil companies.
But they will also never say that any recent price augment will undoubtedly be transient, because for the first time in history America is a major oil producer with so many wells that domestic producers can fill any supply gaps left by fanatics in Iran or Venezuela. And they certainly won’t tell you that there are so many top fracking mines in America.
There are so many things they won’t tell you – I could make a long, long list. Here are the top five truths the media won’t tell you about fracking.
1. This is truly an example of Russian interference
Russians really hate fracking. Nearly 85 percent of Russia’s budget is based on oil and gas sales. Russian gas keeps Europeans toasty in winter – threatening to cut off gas is another way to exert influence in the region.
Fracking and the collapse of natural gas prices pose an existential crisis for Putin and his ability to stay in power. That’s why he funds anti-fracking protests. Do you think I’m making this up? Well, that’s what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a closed-door meeting in Canada. The speech was later revealed in Podesta’s emails, which were leaked before the last election. During the meeting, Clinton stated that she was an environmentalist, but that anti-fracking protests were led by “fake environmental groups… funded by Russians.”
1. Fracking predates Hillary Clinton
The media loves to portray fracking as some kind of scary recent chemical being pushed by predatory Texans. Well, the first oil well to be fracked was in 1947 in Kansas. In the same year, Hillary Clinton was born. In 2008, they discovered a better way to frack, which brought unprecedented success. In 2008, Hillary Clinton tried to reinvent herself, also with less success.
3. Fracking doesn’t make water burn
This lie was popularized by director Josh Fox in his documentary Gasland, financed by HBO and probably Russia. In it, Fox portrays a man who can set tap water on fire, allegedly as a result of fracking.
Journalists reported it with counterfeit shock, pretending they had never learned how to exploit Google. If they Googled “flammable water” they would see that it is and always has been common throughout the United States, especially in places where natural gas can later be extracted. If there is a lot of gas in an area, it is sometimes extracted naturally – sometimes through waterworks – often before fracking begins in the area. The most outrageous fact that the media will never tell you is that Josh Fox knows it. When I questioned him, he admitted that he knew that in the 1920s people lit water for fires, but he I chose no include this material fact in your document because it was “irrelevant.”
4. Fracking does not cause breast cancer.
This nonsense comes from Josh Fox, head of Fracking Fake News. In his tiny film “The Sky is Pink,” Josh Fox claimed that the surge in breast cancer rates in Texas is a result of fracking.
Except for inquiries about leading cancer researchers, all said there was no spike. They just didn’t understand where this accusation came from.
In “FrackNation“ we interviewed a notable biochemist, Dr. Bruce Ameson the link between cancer and fracking. Dr. Ames doesn’t mince his words:
“If people say fracking causes cancer, they have no idea what they’re talking about.”
After the furor, Fox appears to have quietly backtracked on that claim – it didn’t include it in “Gasland 2,” its anti-fracking sequel, but it never apologized for spreading panic through counterfeit news.
5. Fracking is very popular and may have contributed to the election of Donald Trump as president
Media report after media report has loved to claim that fracking is unpopular or scares people, or run another headline they like: “Divides Communities.” Well, no. Fracking is very, very popular in the communities where it occurs. Lawsuits are sometimes encountered, but they are usually brought by people who do not live in the area or who do not have rights to the mineral deposits and are therefore jealous of the well-being of their neighbors. Have you ever wondered why Donald Trump won Ohio by eight points and Pennsylvania when all the other Republican candidates failed?
Well, that’s fucking stupid. Fracking has kept Pennsylvania prosperous for some time, and in the last few years it has taken off in Ohio. During the last presidential election, Hillary Clinton promised to end fracking, and Donald Trump promised to support it. The media, probably believing their own propaganda, thought this meant further gloom for Trump. Ultimately, it was a binary choice and voters elected the first pro-fracking president.
