Al Franken Brings The 'You Didn't Build That' To Fracking Boomers

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Al Franken Brings The 'You Didn't Build That' To Fracking Boomers

by Michael McAuliffe at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/29/al-franken-natural-gas_n_6573154.html

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"I want everyone here to understand who developed that technology, and who's responsible for that, and it's the taxpayers of the United States," Franken said in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.

"We're hearing senators talk about discoveries of reserves of natural gas in their states as if this is just a discovery that happened out of nowhere," Franken said. "This is because of the taxpayers doing investments in research into three-dimensional microseismic imaging, done in Sandia National Labs."

Indeed, while Mitchell is widely credited with sparking the natural gas resurgence, a number of researchers have pointed out that his efforts were made possible by decades of research that cost billions of dollars and were led by the federal government.

"This whole renaissance in natural gas is due to research done by the Department of Energy paid for by the United States taxpayers," Franken said.

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Why do so many Americans have an ignorant view of government or unions?

Because of rightwing think tanks run by the Koch bros and others brainwashing people over the past 40 years.

Do you think THIS congress and today's asshole rightwingers would let us go to the moon?

fuck no