If the book I'm reading is correct, the rotary drill(powered by coal) began the age of oil. No coal means no oil means most people here would not be alive today. Then you have fracking. The United States suffered from a very bad winter last year, causing natural gas prices to greatly increase. Without fracking you'd have a very serious natural gas shortage, and the economy would have suffered just as it did in the early 2000's when we had a natural gas shortage. Coal, fracking, and others that may be bad for the environment(tar sands another example) have a bad reputation but do they deserve them?
Coal and fracking
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