Fracking Conclusion

                Hydraulic fracturing and the production of shale gasses can easily help us reduce our debt as a country while helping the environment with burning less of the damaging, expensive, and foreign oil that we rely on as an economy. Instead of us spending the money to purchase the oil, we would be the ones making the money while marketing this product to other nations around the world. While people believe that fracking can be damaging to our environment, studies show that well-regulated and overseen wells have a very small chance of leaking methane and other gasses harmful to our water and air supplies. (Garnesh, 2) The reported water contamination from hydraulic fracturing is mostly in early wells, back when construction of wells was unregulated and barely watched over by the EPA and other organizations. Now that we understand the potential risks of hydro-fracking, we can start to learn how to prevent those risks and perfect the process of well creation. With simple research and advances to our current fracking technology, we have a potentially risk-free, cheap, abundant, and a more environmentally fuel source, that is more importantly under our feet as we speak. People say the money should be put into more green, renewable technology, but the fact is that those technologies are in the too distant future to have us continue our current lifestyle while researching. Shale gas can be a quick-fix to generate money, potentially funding even more green energy source research with the profits from the marketing of shale gas. To sum everything up, we have the technology to run our current facilities on shale gas; not yet for solar or wind power. That is the biggest monetary concern for green energy companies. But we have power plants that fuel themselves with oil that can be quickly converted into a shale-powered plant. So, who would like to disagree with a cleaner fuel source that will reduce our countries debt, create jobs, and will help the environment while paving the way for more future green technology?