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Once the hipsters in Brooklyn start sporting flame-resistant overalls and clunky steel-toed boots, we’ll know that the shale boom has fully arrived. In the meantime, we can be grateful for the diffuse economic benefits fracking is bringing the country.
Indeed.
William Gibson wrote about this phenomenon nearly ten years ago
About Bill Quick
I am a small-l libertarian. My primary concern is to increase individual liberty as much as possible in the face of statist efforts to restrict it from both the right and the left. If I had to sum up my beliefs as concisely as possible, I would say, "Stay out of my wallet and my bedroom," "your liberty stops at my nose," and "don't tread on me." I will believe that things are taking a turn for the better in America when married gays are able to, and do, maintain large arsenals of automatic weapons, and tax collectors are, and do, not.
