The Washington Post. (2022, June 23). Why Fracking Won’t Solve The Global Oil And Gas Squeeze. Retrieved August 11, 2022 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/why-fracking-wont-solve-the-global-oil-and-gas-squeeze/2022/06/22/588dae6a-f275-11ec-ac16-8fbf7194cd78_story.html
This article is about how despite early promise shown by fracking, it is not a good long term solution. When fracking first became popular, there was a big oil boom where the US has an abundance of oil, and they no longer needed to rely on other countries to provide them with these resources. They had enough energy to support the entire country, and they had enough to export the oil at rapid rates. This led to a monopoly until other countries attempted to lower prices and drive frackers out of business by flooding the market with crude oil. American oil producers changed their approach, so instead of trying to produce so much that they could export it, they focused on producing enough to supply America with enough energy. Unfortunately, this is not sustainable due to the fact that fracking requires an extremely large supply of water, and it does not provide the country with renewable energy, which is what we are trying to achieve
My personal opinion on this information is that fracking seems to be a good system to provide our country with energy at the moment. However, we should still focus on finding ways to switch to a 100% renewable energy system. This relates to environmental science because one of the main reasons fracking is so controversial is due to the fact that it is not renewable, and therefore is not sustainable because our planet will be destroyed if we continue to rely on oil and gas to provide us with energy.
NIce post, Dylan. The article does a nice job showing the evolution of fracking… advantages and drawbacks. It has gotten us off of coal in a big way, which is good… as well as energy independence. One thing though- currently given that we lack energy storage, developing renewables like solar and wind, which don’t provide a steady supply of energy actually require natural gas (or coal) to go side by side to supply power when the sun isn’t shining. Given that, do you think solar and wind should be developed further and recognize that nat. gas, and some fracking will be a part of the energy plan? It’s a nuanced complicated issue and you’ve got a really interesting topic I think.
Thank you for reading my post. I think that using wind and solar energy would be a major improvement even if fracking was still necessary. This would allow us to cut back on fracking and less harm would be done to the environment.
I agree that we need to find renewable energy sources instead of using oil. What are some ideas that we could use for renewable energy systems?
Thank you for reading my post. I think the best renewable energy source we could use is solar energy. because it is abundant and reliable.