Everybody uses natural gas and oil, whether it is to power your house or make your car run there is gas being used somewhere. Unless there is a way for America to extract their own oil or natural gas their prices will always be high. Guess what, there is a way for America to extract natural gas and it is called Fracking! Hydraulic Fracturing or Fracking is the way of extracting natural gas and oil from the ground, but at a price. It could harm the Earth by using up a lot of the water source that we have left on the planet, and it is trapping all of the heat on the planet by a thing called the greenhouse effect. Not only is it harming the earth it is also not saving the average American even $50 a month! If all of those things are happening …show more content…
What if I told you that the same thing was happening to the earth. That the methane and gas emissions sent from cars and especially fracking could be creating this effect that traps all of the heat on the planet never letting it go, only creating a hotter planet. When companies frack, there machines let out this gas known as methane, if methane is not burned on the stove like it is in a home then “it has over 30 times the heat trapping capability that carbon dioxide has…” (Airborne lab seeks fracking leeks). Although fracking lets out methane, some people believe that if we can save over a million jobs in America by keeping fracking, that it is no question that we should frack until there is nothing left to frack. Now a million jobs is nothing to shy away from, but studies show that if fracking does not stay at at least $60 a barrel of gas, than it is not profitable. With gas being at $50, “Fracking cannot sustain a steady profit…” (Rosenberg). This strikes a very debatable question, should anybody be supporting something that traps heat and chemicals on the earth that companies may not be able to remain profitable and sustain