So let's think about that. Why do you want to end the very technology that is reducing our carbon footprint that has granted us energy independence? And oh, by the way, 20 years ago, before we had fracking, we would kill a bad guy in the Middle east and then turn around and ask those same countries for oil. And we don't have to do that anymore. And so it's an issue of national security as well. And quite frankly, we aren't going anywhere. (22:29–22:37)
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Asserts that before fracking, the U.S. was dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
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