"Imagine" if you will, Yoko burning coal in any of her posh estates. While I doubt Yoko uses a taxi, or the electrified subway on her way to JFK to board her private jet, she passes by the Tree Museum (Central Park) from her paved paradise.
Big Yellow Taxi
By Joni Mitchell (Covered by Bob Dylan)
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Don't it always seem to go...
NY is just plain dumb, in my opinion, when it comes to fracking. Fracking is nothing new although advanced horizontal drilling techniques are. I'm not saying there are not attendant risk with either fracking or horizontal drilling for oil. Wait until the high sulfur oil sands oil starts coming down to the gulf from Alberta (yes the Keystone pipeline will get built, and that I oppose, because most of that gulf refined product will be transported overseas, and other than the short term construction jobs that particular pipeline will not serve the best interest of this Country.
All of the brouhaha over lighting off a water faucet makes for good press no doubt. When we were kids we knew of two locations that had artisan springs that we lit off on a regular basis, as there was natural gas in the spring water. There were also several well known areas where crude oozed from the ground. That was over 5 decades ago.
Our options to using hydrocarbon fuels are wind, solar, ocean currents, and fuel cells, etc., none of which are close to making economic sense, although fuel cells seem to be the most promising at the current time. What hydro-power we have is great, and so is nuclear if it doesn't escape.
Just my opinion For What Its Worth.
