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May. 8th, 2014 11:14 amThere's oil drilling near the Everglades and concerns about fracking. Naturally I Google around looking for groups in opposition to this, because right now my displeasure is known mostly by me going "why are you so stupid?" and frankly that only works when many other people are saying the same thing.
While I do, I find what is quite possibly the dumbest Fox News segment yet. Given the riches of shameless idiocy Fox News usually provides, that should tell you to brace yourselves: Is Opposition to Fracking Damaging the Environment?
I kid you not. Is not injecting deeply polluted water into the boulder zone where it can damage the integrity of the very ground we walk on* and seep into our drinking water really good for us? I can't even make this up.
But what I don't understand is, who exactly is this aimed at?
Liberals/environmentalists only hatewatch Fox. Put forward such an asinine question and you know the answer.
The conservatives this segment is nominally aimed at? They will actively go out of their way to do environmentally unfriendly things. If, say, you have two brands but one says "echo-friendly" they will buy the other one--even if it's more expensive for them to do so. Thus, if fracking is somehow good for the environment, by this logic, conservatives will avoid it.
Wait you guys, I think I just solved the fracking problem. All you have to do is tell conservatives that it's good for the environment and they'll come out in droves to oppose it.
*Leading to an increase in earthquakes. Like, a scary amount of earthquakes.
**I know, I know, the whole segment is meant to point at environmentalists and laugh at how dumb/hypocritical they are, except I think the question is so egregiously stupid that not even Fox viewers would fall for it. Also the argument is that natural gas is good for us... except for the part where we export about half our natural gas, and the majority of the oil is shipped overseas. There is no benefit to Americans for destroying our own homeland. We don't get more/cheaper gas and oil. As Willy Wonka says, we get nothing! Good day, sir!
While I do, I find what is quite possibly the dumbest Fox News segment yet. Given the riches of shameless idiocy Fox News usually provides, that should tell you to brace yourselves: Is Opposition to Fracking Damaging the Environment?
I kid you not. Is not injecting deeply polluted water into the boulder zone where it can damage the integrity of the very ground we walk on* and seep into our drinking water really good for us? I can't even make this up.
But what I don't understand is, who exactly is this aimed at?
Liberals/environmentalists only hatewatch Fox. Put forward such an asinine question and you know the answer.
The conservatives this segment is nominally aimed at? They will actively go out of their way to do environmentally unfriendly things. If, say, you have two brands but one says "echo-friendly" they will buy the other one--even if it's more expensive for them to do so. Thus, if fracking is somehow good for the environment, by this logic, conservatives will avoid it.
Wait you guys, I think I just solved the fracking problem. All you have to do is tell conservatives that it's good for the environment and they'll come out in droves to oppose it.
*Leading to an increase in earthquakes. Like, a scary amount of earthquakes.
**I know, I know, the whole segment is meant to point at environmentalists and laugh at how dumb/hypocritical they are, except I think the question is so egregiously stupid that not even Fox viewers would fall for it. Also the argument is that natural gas is good for us... except for the part where we export about half our natural gas, and the majority of the oil is shipped overseas. There is no benefit to Americans for destroying our own homeland. We don't get more/cheaper gas and oil. As Willy Wonka says, we get nothing! Good day, sir!
