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Fracking: The Latest Manifestation of American Exceptionalism

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 19 2019

Betting against America is a foolish proposition, as decades and centuries have proven. Leftist political merchants, however, continue to peddle that gloom and doom. The most stinging rebuke in recent years comes courtesy of America’s petroleum sector – perhaps the Left’s most detested bogeyman of all. Recall the decades of endless lectures about how petroleum, which has done more than perhaps any other resource in human history to improve lives and advance civilization, was a vanishing resource that we must cede to the mercy of oft-hostile foreign powers and…

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