It has been long acknowledged that the Untied States is in need of finding a natural energy source in order to become a more sustainable country and to also become less dependent on the Middle East. Attaining natural gas and oil from shale is a game changer when it comes to energy production. However, this revolutionary approach has created environmental skepticism around how environmentally friendly and sustainable this practice actually is and the types of problems that could be associated with fracking as a practice.
Hydraulic Fracking has become extremely controversial because of very serious potential environmental risks. Enormous amounts of water are used during the fracking process, which become polluted creating a high probability …show more content…
According to the Energy From Shale Organization website, “fracking supports 2.1 million American jobs and promises more energy-secur[ity] for [the] country… and will save the average American household $3,500 per year by 2025”. Moving oil production from foreign to domestic also lowers gas prices nationally, which is beneficial for the public. In fact a statistic from the Energy From Shale Organization says the fracking has already saved Americans money, “through lower gas prices estimated at $1,200 per household in 2012”. Economic gains aside, the entire world runs on oil and natural gas, without these two key components nothing could have possibly been accomplished. There would have been no industrial or technological revolutions. Globalization through means of modern transportation would never exist. Americans would have never won the race in becoming the first nation to the moon. There would be no age of information that allowed the entire world to be connected through the Internet. Human technological evolution would be rendered completely obsolete and science fiction. It is true that retrieving oil and natural gas is essential to life in this modern age, however these are nonrenewable resources, meaning that one day it will run
Hydraulic Fracking has become extremely controversial because of very serious potential environmental risks. Enormous amounts of water are used during the fracking process, which become polluted creating a high probability …show more content…
According to the Energy From Shale Organization website, “fracking supports 2.1 million American jobs and promises more energy-secur[ity] for [the] country… and will save the average American household $3,500 per year by 2025”. Moving oil production from foreign to domestic also lowers gas prices nationally, which is beneficial for the public. In fact a statistic from the Energy From Shale Organization says the fracking has already saved Americans money, “through lower gas prices estimated at $1,200 per household in 2012”. Economic gains aside, the entire world runs on oil and natural gas, without these two key components nothing could have possibly been accomplished. There would have been no industrial or technological revolutions. Globalization through means of modern transportation would never exist. Americans would have never won the race in becoming the first nation to the moon. There would be no age of information that allowed the entire world to be connected through the Internet. Human technological evolution would be rendered completely obsolete and science fiction. It is true that retrieving oil and natural gas is essential to life in this modern age, however these are nonrenewable resources, meaning that one day it will run