Hydrofracking shall be pronounced Chemofracking

The term hydrofracking is misleading terminology. Since hydroelectric is the only hydro most people know about, the implicit harm and misleading nature of accidental logical connection of forms of power that are on opposite ends of the renewable energy spectrum shall be prevented.

Hydraulic Fracturing has infiltrated many areas of the country already, many areas without hydroelectric opportunities. The scheme of paying certain people money to support this alleged clean technique, while stealing resources from states and neighbors, using methods which are unrelated to pure sand and water that people may infer, and a fracturing mixture that contains many chemicals to induce fractures in bedrock has many documented and undocumented harmful effects.

No matter how many resources we scrape up using costly techniques such as this or tar oil sands, the resources will not last long enough nor will the environmental cost be justifiable in hindsight once the resources are gone. The costs will inevitably skyrocket and people will loose their ability to support themselves, taken once again by the entrepreneurial nature of such investments. It is no way to invest in the future, especially when safer cleaner techniques are available.

We have enough resources already to build alternatives that will last into the future, tapping into what ought to be the final reserves of a dying species is avoidable and ought to be avoided. If we continue investing only in our selfish propellants we avoid addressing stability in our own futures on this planet.