Fracking - where is it headed ?

[Ocean's Edge]

I'm going to state a fairly unpopular position.

Big Oil isn't the problem.

The problem is - that even as greater and greater understanding world wide of the dangers and environmental impact of these kinds of projects - the world wide demand for fossil fuels is not diminishing, the demand for oil continues to grow. Fact is they wouldn't be looking for new and even more expensive sources if they weren't selling the stuff and they wouldn't be selling it if we weren't using it.

It's all well and good to blame "Big Oil" ... but at the end of the economic chain their is us. While there are still some coal mines - there aren't nearly as many or as large or as dangerous and expensive as they used to be... why? because we, the world, aren't really using much coal anymore. At the end of every economic chain - there is US.

We demand oil, we really only pay lip service (as a society) to real alternatives, and as long as we're demanding it - they're gonna keep looking to supply us with it.

We are the problem.