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I wonder who taught Bernie Sanders to say "systemic racism" and "climate change" every time he opens his mouth. Was @NaomiAKlein a tutor in preparation for his 2020 run? In any case it's bougie woke drivel that doesn't connect with most people, and actively turns many people off.
Much of the country outside of parts of certain cities & suburbs connected to the global/tech economy has been plagued by capital flight, deindustrialization, blight & all the ills that come along with them. It just so happened that the fracking boom gave some much-needed...
fuel to these local economies. Of course the fruits were distributed very unequally & the boom had drawbacks, chief among them that it was inherently ephemeral, but for rural America it was a great boon in tough times (especially post-2008) that people couldn't afford to reject.
1) the fracking boom was facilitated by the Obama/Biden administration
2) it seems to be declining definitively because of persistently low oil prices, under which fracking companies can't break even
3) there no difference from the POV of carbon emitted whether gas comes from
2) it seems to be declining definitively because of persistently low oil prices, under which fracking companies can't break even
3) there no difference from the POV of carbon emitted whether gas comes from
US fracking or traditional oil wells in The Gulf, but the prior is surely better for Americans in localities that benefit from fracking.
If after knowing all of this you still center your platform (Bernie, AOC, etc) around a policy that includes ending fracking (easy using existing regulatory tools), with the added sweetener of "new deal" welfare programs (that workers know from experience are pie in the sky)...
