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Because they have ZERO credibility. They are VERY left wing and EVERYTHING they write has a VERY strong left bias to it.
The fact that you don't know this doesn't give you much credibility either.
Like they say, "consider the source".
Are you saying that they are lying? I know that fox viewers very rarely come into contact with facts and believe that the concept means "liberal" but facts really are non-partisan.
Do we vote for politicians so they can improve their standard of living or do we vote for politicians so that we can maintain our quality of life?
It's supposed to be the latter but the collective "we" vote against our own best interests. So it ends up more frequently being the latter. I think we should force the legislators who vote for this, to live on adjoining land to any fracking site.
What will fracking do to the real-estate market here in NC? Shouldn't we take our time and think this over? My friend up in West Virginia said his land became worthless (literally) when they started fracking near it and the water in his well started to smell funny.
I will sell my house and leave the state over it - not hyperbole. Just hope it sells before my property value plummets to nothing. Durham is on a shale basin.
According to this link, it passed yesterday even though Twelve Repubs joined forty Dems against it.
Showtime has been having a documentary series called "Years of Living Dangerously" and one of the frightening things that's been just recently researched about fracking is that it releases huge amounts of methane into the air making it even worse than coal.
Last edited by mountainrose; 05-28-2014 at 06:18 PM..
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