Do you want such a tap?

1. No
2. Yes
3. I don't care
4. I'm a looser with no onion

You forgot the part where consumers get their petroleum fix. This whole thing reminds me of the people fighting "unclear energy" in spite of the alternatives causing acid rain etc.

"Clean coal" is the future. Now it's even delivered straight to your house! Only the liberal media would complain about such a feature.

Please tell me you noticed my rampant sarcasm.

Coal has sulfur, soot, nitrogen, mercury, and even bits of uranium. It also kills people every year who mine for it.

A "clean coal" power plant has never actually been implemented, even though the "theoretically possible" power plant has been touted in advertisements. The one plant they said was going to be installed and bragged about? Too bad, they decided "climate regulation was too ensure and the economy too weak" so they scraped it--but not till after getting $330 million in DOE grants to start the project. They then put it on a smaller test bed, only to shut it off after they proved it could work--even while bragging about the 50,000 metric tons of CO2 they captured in two years.

That's right. They both bragged about saving the environment, and shut off the very thing they were bragging about.

Coal, like other parts of the energy industry, is rampant with self-serving lobbyists that don't care how many people die, or how much our ecosystem gets damaged.

States like Oklahoma that use fracking are actually experiencing their highest number of Earthquakes on record.

Bummer.

The contamination of the groundwater seems even more dangerous to me than earthquakes. An earthquake lasts a short time, to purify groundwater may take much longer.

German government is still discussing, it seems they may allow fracking with water and sand in special cases, but they are not going to allow groundwater contamination with chemicals.

Apparently fracking is destroying many states aquifers.

But that's okay, right? Because power companies have our best interests at heart.

What do we, animals and plants drink when the groundwater is a chemical cocktail? Coca Cola?

I was under the impression that the aquifers were being depleted by excessive extraction of water.

I'm afraid Coca Cola isn't as well represented in the Congress as Exxon Mobil is, so I bet you'll be drinking petroleum. I assure you they'll find some doctors who'll find enough arguments for the judges to believe replacing water with oil does not harm your health.

You're right. Tell me how all my letters to my congressman concerning Edward Snowden made a significant impact on society.

I don't really believe in a soul that goes on, or a god. but I do happen to care about humanity's future, especially my descendants futures.

After the Vedas the soul is a spiritual (immaterial) particle with the size of a ten thousandth tip of a hair. It can build any spiritual form around it. For a human incarnation it builds a form that is exactly the same like the material body. As long the human lives these two bodies take the same place, they are so much connected that one could think they are the same. When the material body dies the spiritual body stays alive. Thats what people have named a "ghost".

It is right, following the philosophy of the Vedas, fracking is by far not the only problem of mankind. In almost all aspects of modern human live there would be changes necessary. But as long as people follow the philosophy of pure materialism nothing will change, it will only get worse.