<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Alan Abrams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@abramsdesignbuild.com" target="_blank">alan@abramsdesignbuild.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>not squarely on topic, but of possible interest...should the US ramp up extraction of natural gas, not only for domestic use, but also for export--exacerbating the woes of fracking--but also possible displacing the burning of coal...</div>


<div><br></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/opinion/the-case-for-natural-gas-exports.html?hp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/opinion/the-case-for-natural-gas-exports.html?hp</a> </blockquote>
<div><br>Since we urgently need to leave both in the ground, not dig up any more, I think this is a fool's errand, a distraction from the real issue, the hard work of figuring out how to wean ourselves off all fossil fuels. <br>
<a href="http://www.carbontracker.org/">http://www.carbontracker.org/</a><br> <br></div></div>