Dick Downey says anti-gas and anti-development types just love using the word sustainable but sustainability for them consists mainly in saying no and that’s not sustainable.

In a flurry of letters to the editor last week, an anti-development group operating from my upstate New York backyard called Sustainable Otsego unfurled its banner in support of its candidates. It read, “Fracking Is Bad“ … in spite of the fact that 90% of all new wells in the USA are fracked (yes, your car is probably running on at least some fracked product) … the switch in electrical generation from coal to gas has reduced CO2 emissions in the United States to a 20 year low … the up-tick in natural gas supports 2.1 million industry jobs … manufacturing has returned to the Rust Belt … the United States has surpassed Russia as the world’s largest producer of energy … even the leadership in the current administration, which, along with the EPA and the Energy Department, supports development.

http://naturalgasnow.org/sustainable-saying/#more-1721