For too long, on my "to do" list has been to post on the serious questions related to the booming in America's natural gas reserves due to the development of "Fracking" (hydraulic fracturing) technology and approaches that have enabled exploitation of the massive amount of carbon atoms in shale natural gas.
We know that 
"Clean Coal" is an oxymoronic lie useful as an advertising slogan but (generously speaking) little substance behind it (at best, "less dirty coal" could be accurate). Deepwater Horizon has given us a very clear understanding that "Beyond Petroleum" made people feel good while the Bloody Polluters having been happily taking their cash to the bank. Yet, "clean natural gas" is a term that seems to roll off far too many tongues without, it seems, any realization of the irony that the best we can do with a fossil fuel is make it "less dirty" as opposed to clean.
continued at Daily Kos....
