Is hydraulic fracturing one of the most significant innovations of the early 21st century? In an op-ed, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal argues that it is:
Fracking has now upended energy markets, pummeled petrodictators, confounded OPEC, forged deeper North American economic ties, slashed U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions to their lowest level since 1995, and sunk a nail into the coffin of most renewable-energy schemes * * *.
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