I’d much rather adhere to the romantic fantasy that human beings are morally culpable agents that have a choice of whether or not to commit crimes and may be punished accordingly.

http://www.epi.org/publication/bp349-assessing-the-green-economy/

Which there should be. Two forms of energy, one sustainable, the other not.

One might as well say that fracking is responsible for halitosis, or clogged sink drains, or the designated hitter rule.

A gradual, phased in fracking development, using local construction resources, would have no effect that the local female population would notice, other than perhaps increased family incomes.

See it is funny, the women near the fracking are getting raped and harassed! Get it! Fracking BOOM! Oh that’s comedy gold!

But I hear the modern neo-conservatives can’t even get any lovin’ even from conservative women, though, much less liberals. Maybe that’s why they are so cranky.

Hey I know, HOW ABOUT WE STOP FRACKING.  What? People are making money off it? Oh. Forget it what was I thinking.

:(

Meanwhile, curious the shortage of working ladies and gents. They don’t call it ‘the oldest profession’ for nothing; there’s always plenty of work to be had most any place, but especially towns like those. I wondered if it isn’t a seasonal thing – who the hell would want to spend winter in North Dakota? NoDak is one of the least populous states in the country. For the kind of money those guys would happily pay for sex, a prostitute could rake in a year’s worth of income in three or four months and go home, and work when the weather was much more accomodating. Therefore, the local girls are particularly harrassed in winter.

I was trying to picture the same bidding war going on to hire the favors of two working girls, ‘Okay, here’s the deal… we’ll pay you $7K to strip and pour us beer for an afternoon, while we guys get drunk and watch extreme sports on the television.’ ‘No sex?’ ‘No.’ ‘Not even a blowjob.’ ‘Not unless you want to arrange that seperately.’ Would they have turned down the work or been insulted by the proposition? If the town girls were offended even by the initial offer, why didn’t they walk away rather than listen to the bidding go up?

Your supposition is nonsensical. You think the article is critical of the practice of extraction via fracking technology??

Didn’t read it, did you?

The companies running these fracking operations could invite government regulation and pay more local taxes (instead of demand tax breaks) to ease such situations, but of course that would undermine the “free” market and Liberty(!) and open the door for horrors like union organising.