Saturday I watched a TV news report that said that in Oklahoma the number of earthquakes each year has risen from 3 on average to 600 on average because of fracking. The report was followed by an ad filled with smiling, handsome, young people telling me I should join them and become an “energy voter.” I guess the term “energy voter” is the new billionaires’ euphemism for a fracking supporter.
You can bet that some conservative think tank, funded by a billionaire oil and gas man, hired 100 graduates from Yale to figure out the best possible euphemisms for fracking. Most in our liberal establishment are so weak-minded that they will soon drift in and declare that they, too, are energy voters and love an brisk fracking. In fact, many already have. Liberals and conservatives will next race to claim the invention of the term “clean fracking.”
Liberals and conservatives will continue fracking till the cows come home. They don’t live in Oklahoma. If they do and their houses fall down, insurance will cover the losses. And the ordinary sooners? Their brains have been adjusted by think tanks. They don’t mind earthquakes a bit. It’s the price you pay for freedom.
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