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| Shale gas is Rearden Metal |
| 2013-08-17 |
| h/t Instapundit For my summer holidays I have been mostly reading Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand has her faults but, boy, was she prescient. One of the things she foresaw was the current nonsensical, dishonest, canting campaign against shale gas. In Atlas Shrugged it takes the form of Rearden Metal, the miracle technology which is going to transform the US economy if only the progressives will let it. But of course, RandÂ’s fictional progressives donÂ’t want Reardon Metal to succeed any more than their modern, real-life equivalents want shale gas to succeed. Why not? For the same rag-bag of made-up, disingenuous reasons which progressives have used to justify their war on progress since time immemorial: |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 ....the only thing missing are "scientific findings" that the negative side effects of fracking unfairly impact |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-08-17 22:34 |