OAC’s Imaginary Toxic Emissions From Fracking

Greta Thunberg may be a neurodiverse child who parrots apocalyptic rhetoric fed to her by leftist radicals, but at least she is probably more knowledgeable than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the Green New Deal when it comes to environmental issues. Comically clueless, OAC recently presented a heat signature where no fracking was taking place as toxic emissions from fracking.

The Future of the Democratic Party traveled to Colorado, presumably by carbon-emitting jet, to register her disapproval of the state’s energy production. This tweet resulted:

Wow, scary. Now a word from someone who knows what he is talking about — Brian Cain, a spokesman for Extraction Oil & Gas, via Daily Caller:

“Using an infrared camera, the Congresswoman claimed to see ‘invisible emissions,’ when she was actually witnessing a heat signature caused by high-temperature (200-plus degrees) synthetic drilling mud being circulated to the surface against cooler fall temperatures in Broomfield.”

The Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) and Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Oilfield Services, confirmed that no fracking was taking place in the video.

It was a fellow Democrat who first exposed AOC’s bogus video:

“Interesting video, but [Ocasio-Cortez] there is no fracking occurring at the site as shown and no way to determine compliance or lack thereof with CO air standards. As Dems, we do ourselves no favors when we ignore science and facts. Happy to discuss energy and the West any time,” Mary Throne, a Wyoming Democratic public service commissioner wrote in response to Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet.

Not all Dems agree about the importance of facts. OAC has denounced those who are “more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right” (i.e., ideologically correct). Leading Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden famously barked, “We choose truth over facts,” although admittedly that was probably Alzheimer disease talking.

Few of the 39,700 people who liked AOC’s tweet will ever learn that it was thoroughly false. But Coloradans who like a healthy economy have one more reason to vote against a party controlled by radical authoritarian fools.

Fanatical hostility to the economic miracle of fracking is not likely to go over well in swing state Pennsylvania either.

On a tip from Varla.

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