In an Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180k

Re:In an Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180k by tw04 on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:45PM (#19547382)

>1. Buy an electric car. Live in a smaller home. Consume fewer material goods. Set your heat cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Do what you can and actually put your money and lifestyle where your mouth is.

Literally none of that will stop the immediate threat of fracking injecting chemicals into our drinking water. Which is the discussion.

In fact, fracking will have done all of its damage long before ANY of those things will cause a change in behavior by the companies doing it.

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Re:In an Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180k by CompelTechnic on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:58PM (#19547531)

Your comment that I replied to had a broad enough scope (i.e. asking the majority of the population to pick up and move close to their work) that it is still in context.

Buying an electric car will contribute on the margin to stopping fracking due to less gasoline consumption. It is action rather than yelling and virtue signalling.

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