There’s been a lot of hullabaloo in the UK over the Balcombe fracking protests. WUWT reader Eric Worrall writes in with this comparison photo.
Original picture source: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-08-16/anti-fracking-activists-camp-without-permission/
Here is a tagged version of the same picture of all the plastic high tech synthetics used by anti fracking protestors in England, captured in a single photograph.
![frackpic[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/frackpic1.jpg?quality=83)
It really makes you wonder – do anti-fracking protestors think nylon tents, PVC groundsheets, and plastics grow on trees? No doubt the tents also contain high tech synthetic fibre sleeping bags, and gas powered camp cookers.
Do these hypocrites actually think about what sort of world they would have to endure, without the cheap hydrocarbons, and cheap plastic synthetics, the petroleum source of which they oppose?
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“one word: PLASTICS”
(famous scene from “The Graduate”)
Skiphil says:
August 23, 2013 at 9:38 pm
If Ben listened to Mr. McGuire he would have made money on every anti-fracking protest out there.
So, is it hypocrisy, or ignorance? (or stupidity?)
In Oscar Wilde’s case, telling the truth may have been inconvenient.
I never needed a mask to tell the truth as I know it.
Maybe that’s why I am “welcome to leave” is some places.
So what? It’s better to be welcome to leave than to be welcome to lie.
Friends who admire you for what you are not will be the first to stab you in the back.
Is she wearing shades?
Reminds me of a lady we talked to while on vacation in Costa Rica. I was discussing windmills and how they kill birds with a fellow at the pool. A lady overheard me and came over to state that my comments were a BIG OIL statistic, how she knew better because she is a member of the Sierra Club. She is anti oil, anti gas, anti nuclear, anti coal and anti fracking. We asked her how she got to Costa Rica and she murmured something about Virgin Airlines developing or buying more fuel efficient planes.
We later discovered she flies to Costa Rica from New England 6 times a year, is building a monster house in Costa Rica with a pool and imported Italian marble. Her and her husband drive big SUV’s and we’re not sure if everything they do is powered by fossil fuel or magical fairy farts. A good example of ‘Do as I say”, not “Do as I do.”
Eric Worrall writes “Do these hypocrites actually think about what sort of world they would have to endure, without the cheap hydrocarbons, and cheap plastic synthetics, the petroleum source of which they oppose?”
If they were protesting about drilling for oil your comments might make sense.
Since they are protesting about injecting chemicals into the ground to extract gas ( not commonly used for making plastics) your whole article is pretty STUPID and you allegations of “hypocracy” totally unfounded.
Looks like fracking debate is going to be a mindless left/right polarised issue devoid of facts just like climate.
In fact, deliberately confounding oil extraction with gas extraction in order to make a false criticism of hypocracy is pretty hypocritical in itself.
This is called projection. Nice work Eric.
I have lived the green energy free dream – and it was a nightmare, I would attach the link if I knew how!
I would add the picture at this link as well.
http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/81520131413123.jpg
Can anyone tell me how to post images on WordPress? I tried the tag with both angle and square brackets, but couldn’t see it on the preview.
@ur momisugly en passant
to insert a link, just copy and paste it.
I’d be interested to see what you’re referring to.
“Do these hypocrites actually think”? Answer is a resounding “No”.
@Greg
“If they were protesting about drilling for oil your comments might make sense.”
They are drilling for oil.
Balcombe is a oil drilling test site.
It seems you are as uninformed as they are.
Greg says:
If they were protesting about drilling for oil your comments might make sense.
Greg. you do know that is exactly what Quadrilla are doing, don’t yoou? Drilling for oil, not gas?
This misses the mark, badly.
Is the host hypocritical when he both advocates reducing electricity usage and uses some electricity?
REPLY: Oh puhleeze, does the host go camp on neighbors lawns, chant, protest, hold up signs, and demand the power poles be shut down? I really grow tired of your high minded concern trolling. Don’t make this thread about you again. The post is labeled humor/satire, get over it.- Anthony
And can please , PLEASE ask them how they can afford to show up all over, England Holland, Germany, the rest of the EU, now Canada, the USA and for that matter all over the place in their tents waving their pla(stic)cards?? all of you have said this as well but I wonder ?? WHAT do they use to brush their teeth!
Dear Mr. Dollis,
Does A-th-y advocate reducing electricity usage per se, or simply because it is too expensive? Where does our host decry the use of electricity per se as you say he does? Please provide a cite to back up your insult. He would gladly, I believe, use MORE electricity, but he cannot afford it.
A grateful guest of A-th-y’s,
Janice
What’s amazing that there is almost nothing in that picture that is *not* a petro-product.
Okay, Greg, have it your way. The lady in the green poncho who heated her shower water this morning with natural gas, turned up the NG furnace to take the morning chill off the house, cooked her morning serving of algae stew with NG, phoned her boss in the NG-heated building where she usually works to say she had to attend her mother’s funeral today, and whose retirement fund has significant investments in companies with NG holdings, is sitting beside the road until it gets dark when she will drive to an NG-heated restaurant for dinner.
GREAT SATIRE, Eric Worrall! Thanks for the laughter with a point.
I apologise, Anthony. It was humour, and that very spoil-sport over me over something so trivial.
And Janice, while I’m not going to search archives at this hour, I’m certain Anthony has said he believes in conservation for conservation’s sake, not just to save money. That’s to his credit, of course.
*of me
Never mind everything else, think basic. They all have water bottles. With no plastic then what…glass (expensive,energy-hungry)? leather (requires cattle business)? ceramic (energy-hungry)? The water will require boiling needing…wood? peat? Multiply the problem by sixty million and that alone collapses everything.
Don’t forget the iphones they use, charged by fossil fuels, & the telecoms networks that would collapse if run entirely from renewables. Also the media coverage they so desparately craved, also powered by fossil fuels, no doubt watched by people on their wooden TVs, and recorded using tablets of stone or papyrus. Also, how did they get there & home again? Horse and cart?
Hey all! I visit WUWT multiple times a day and I enjoy this site very much. I am very much concerned with the state of affairs in our “Once Great Country” and for the life of me I can’t figure out how we let the Nuts take control of the Asylum! On a serious note though; I have decided to make it my goal to become more environmentally friendly and do my part to curb emissions. Can some one point me to a site where I can purchase a small cheap carbon capture unit? I have decided that I will pull as much of the poisonous gas out of the atmosphere as I possibly can and put it in my Beer Kegs!
Thanks in Advance!
Butch
I think next time they have a protest, why not join them? bring your own 4×4 only one person per vehicle. Then we can make them really look like hypocrites and will be so obvious that the press will pick up on it next time. Good plan ?
And, of course, you have to ask the question: “Who, or what, will be the greatest beneficiaries if these Ecoloons are successful in stopping fracking in the UK and the rest of Europe?”
Answer: Step forward Gazprom and Big Oil.
Fracking will be Europe’s economic salvation, so not surprisingly the goofy and clueless are against it.