Gas Fracking seen aiding Pres. Obama in several states including all important swing state of Ohio-Bloomberg

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9/4/12, "Ohio’s Gas-Fracking Boom Seen Aiding Obama in Swing State," Bloomberg, J. Snyder

"The boom in oil and natural gas is setting up an election- year irony: a green-energy president who is getting a boost from fossil fuels.

Oil and natural gas output is on the rise largely because of hydraulic fracturing, which has given drillers access to reserves in shale rock formations once too costly to produce. The so-called fracking injects millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals thousands of feet below the surface to free fossil fuels trapped there, a process that

• Obama’s environmentalist allies say increases air and water pollution.

Fracking is unlocking oil in North Dakota and Texas. More important to Obama’s re-election chances, it’s aiding natural gas production -- and Obama’s poll ratings -- in Ohio and Pennsylvania, swing states with 38 electoral votes combined."...via Tom Nelson

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Ed. note: The left hates fracking but will wait til after Obama is re-elected to destroy it. Obama ex-Green Czar Van Jones freely admits environmentalists held off criticizing Obama during the BP oil spill but would have been all over a Republican president:

5/16/12, "Van Jones Cops a Plea," Powerline blog, Steven Hayward

"A sharp-eyed Power Line reader directed us to this C-SPAN video featuring Van Jones, President Obama’s short-lived “green jobs” czar, admitting around the 19:14 mark what is plain to anyone who pays attention, namely, that the environmental movement is basically an adjunct of the Democratic Party:

“I’m critical of myself, first, and the environmentalists. When the oil spill had happened in the spring of 2010, there was another moment to say, ‘Hold on a second, let’s relook at energy policy in America. Should we be subsidizing companies who are risking our health immediately and in the long-term?’” We didn’t do it. You’ve never seen the environmental movement more quiet during an oil spill. I guarantee you, if John McCain had been President, with that oil spill, or George Bush had been President with that oil spill, I’d have been out there with a sign protesting. I didn’t, because of who the President was."...

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