RFK Jr’s vow to ban fracking met with intense criticism

Democratic governmental prospect Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. pledged to prohibit hydraulic fracturing, which is called fracking, a procedure of producing oil or gas.

Kennedy stated in a thread published on social networks that such a restriction would come as part of his 10-step strategy to “repair the plastics contamination crisis.” He included that fracking offers the feedstock for most of domestically-produced plastics, which are mainly originated from petroleum items and gas.

” I talked of you that this man is anti-freedom,” energy specialist Alex Epstein stated in reaction to Kennedy’s post. “Prohibiting fracking would instantly plunge the United States into an anxiety. And [Kennedy] would do it to ‘fix’ an amorphous ‘plastics crisis.'”

” I understand some conservatives who like RFK Jr however this is one hundred percent disqualifying,” included Isaac Orr, a policy fellow concentrating on energy problems at the Center of the American Experiment. “We appropriately slam Biden for restricting oil and gas production however even he hasn’t been this singing about prohibiting fracking.”

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According to the Energy Info Administration, an approximated 2.8 billion barrels, the equivalent of 7.8 million barrels each day, of petroleum were produced straight from tight-oil resources in 2022. The drilling technique of fracking is needed to reach such tight-oil resources buried deep within below ground tanks.

In general, approximately 67% of all domestically-produced petroleum– which is the basis of petroleum items– is originated from tight-oil resources, the information revealed.

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In addition, fracking has actually resulted in an advantage in gas production in the U.S. over the last years. Regular monthly dry shale gas production, as an outcome, has actually escalated from about 5 billion cubic feet each day to more than 80 billion cubic feet a day.

” A restriction on hydraulic fracturing– a practice that has actually been utilized for over 50 years in the United States and other nations– would lead to the loss of countless tasks, rate spikes at the fuel pump and greater electrical power expenses for all Americans,” previous Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette composed in a 2021 report on fracking.

A shale gas well drilling website is envisioned in St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania, on March 12, 2020. ( AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

” Such a restriction would get rid of the United States’ status as the leading oil and gas producing nation and return us to being a net importer of oil and gas by 2025,” Brouillette continued. “It would damage America’s geopolitical standing and adversely effect our nationwide security.”

That Department of Energy report concluded that a fracking restriction would result in a 244% boost in gas rates, eliminate 7.7 million tasks, lower U.S. gdp by $1.1 trillion and result in $950 billion in labor wage losses.

” Removing the main innovation accountable for the development in United States oil and gas production would increase gas, transport fuel and electrical power rates starting a causal sequence of extreme effects to the Country’s economy, environment, and geopolitical standing,” the report specified.

Kennedy’s project did not instantly react to an ask for remark.