There’s plenty of fake news out there, alarmist misinformation, and outright lies. I happened to pull up behind this vehicle today at a stop light and snapped a photo of what I consider one of the most ridiculous and outright false bumper stickers I’ve ever seen. Of course, only an emotional liberal would display something like this.
It reads:
FRACKING IS CHEMICAL WARFARE, POISONING THE WATER, THE EARTH, AND YOU.
Chemical warfare? Now I’ve heard it all.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t make out the fine print at the bottom, but I suspect it’s from those idiots at “Frack Free Butte County” who got a moratorium passed a couple years ago in a county where there’s no oil or gas exploration going on (mainly due to geography) and there’s just one tiny section of the county where there are some old gas wells (maybe a dozen or two) that are decades old.
The whole campaign was so stupid, I wrote a detailed report to the County Supervisors about why fracking is safe, who tabled the decision and left it up for a public vote. That then turned into a bunch of scare tactics, and since there was no interest in Butte County for any future oil and gas exploration, it went unopposed and passed, becoming a pointless law accomplishing nothing but make a bunch of fools feel good about themselves.
Watch this if you can stomach it.
ANd, the sticker will ruin the paint on the car.
I suspect that unlike our host here they don’t have solar power for their house nor do they drive as economically efficient car as he does.
You probably missed this post from not long ago…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/06/study-climate-skeptics-engage-in-more-eco-friendly-behavior-than-climate-alarmists/
Study: Climate skeptics engage in more eco-friendly behavior than climate alarmists
My brilliant wife’s comment about the fracktarded bumper sticker:
“Panzies and snowflakes offended by something they don’t even understand.”
😎
The only problem with “transparent science” is that the minions won’t bother to look.
Ignorance leads to fear. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to the dark (green) side.
And fodder for ridicule… 😎
Is it just me, or isn’t it a bit ironic that the car is a VW?
I understand why people might see risk in well drilling (even a smaller geothermal well done in the bad place can cause a catastrophe), in high pressure fluid injection (fear of leaks), manipulation of large amount of contaminated water…
These are understandable concerns (concerns, not terrors).
But then, why do these people feel safe around fast moving wind turbine, with the electrical components so high that fire fighters wouldn’t be able to fight a fire if they could magically be on site on time to fight it, ready to start a forest fire? And they feel these are “enviro-friendly”? And “local energy production” even when there is no wind, because “there is always wind somewhere on Earth”?
Years ago we lived in Orange County CA. My wife saw a bumper sticker : “Save California. Spay or neuter a liberal!”. Well, that’s what she told me, anyway. It may be true. It’s also a good idea.
Funny that Al Gore and green activists support geothermal energy not knowing the geothermal industry also do fracking – pumping high pressure fluid in wells to increase permeability of rock formations. But then Gore doesn’t know the Earth’s core is cooler than the sun
The anti-industry/anti any kind of economic development crowd, here in Hawaii is now freaking out over the approach of lava flows toward the Puna Geothermal Ventures (PGV) plant. The initial concern was over 60,000 gallons of pentane, which has now been moved to a safer location, but people are still hyperventilating over wells not being “shut down” or wells being “broken”. The volcanic eruption itself is releasing molten lava, SO2, and maybe some H2S. As far as I know, the only other thing that could be released from the geothermal wells is salt water and steam, maybe at high pressure. You wouldn’t want to be near by when a lava-spewing fissure opens up around a well, but I don’t see how the level of disaster would be any greater than the eruption itself.
That doesn’t stop people from spouting off about “poison”, “toxins”, “greed”, “corruption”, and so on with regard to PGV. These are the same people who stopped the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the inter island ferry, and anything else that would bring development and jobs to the local economy. Some of this attitude is due to local superstitions, but a lot of it is green obstructionism.
In modern universities mature idiots teach maturing idiots.
Odd that it isn’t the windmill woman with the cash in the pocket. She’s the one demanding subsidies and legislated advantages. Money in for nothin’. And your environmental damage for free.