Um, then why exactly did the fracking industry get immunity from disclosing the stuff they are putting in the ground? What are they hiding?

Fracking takes place below. Except that fracking BREAKS the rock. It's the entire purpose of it. So cracks form and allow escape routes.

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The glut is significantly due to US increase in production. We're number 2 right now and going to be rivaling Saudi soon. Of course we're pushing max capacity and Saudi can turn it up way over our heads, but the current glut is us.

Electable Republicans? for President? Hell ROMNEY is considering running again.

Shale is fracking. It's how they are extracting said oil, by breaking the shale with injection wells. It's used for both gas and oil.

$5-6 by summer? Doubtful. But within 5-10 years, almost certainly. What we're seeing is how much the commodity trading artificially inflated prices. And probably some of the various big hedge funds starting to divest themselves of oil stocks. But global demand from China and India are going to reassert themselves as you suggest.

Perhaps, but oil and gas in the long run are only going up in price as supplies dwindle. The current increase in production also has very very serious side effects that are likely going to severely curtail it within a decade. Increasing numbers of earthquakes of 5+ magnitude in Kansas? Oklahoma? Guess what's causing that?

5 isn't huge in California, but it's a much stronger effect in solid plate areas as opposed to the edges. And they are much shallower making the tremors yet stronger...right near the depth where the fluids are being injected...funny that.

Who has more money. Al Gore or the Koch Brothers? And yet the Koch Brothers can't seem to buy even 4% of scientists? If you're claiming scientists are 'bought', then why exactly aren't they singing the tune of the highest bidders?

Actually there won't BE any fuel taxes. As in no gasoline fuel used. The 'gas tax' is dying and needs too. Paying based on your annual mileage x vehicle type needs to be the new metric for funding roads. Even before we get off gas, cars are more and more efficient, reducing the amount of gas used per mile driven. The cost of maintaining the roads is FAR exceeded by the cost of not doing so. When the roads start breaking down, the delivery trucks need that much more maintenance and now everything costs more to deliver. Regular maintenance spending is always cheaper.

Here here. I've been saying it will basically be another 20-30 years before it really gets mainstream though. Not until todays 20 somethings are in management roles will it start coming to main street.

Though in bigger cities the simple cost of renting office space will hopefully start it a bit earlier.

And suggesting that we ALL abide by common sense rules isn't living life the way we preach? We're trying to make sure everybody plays by the same rules. That's usually the argument against doing anything about carbon...that China simply won't play along. Yet here you claim 'we', the greenies, should go first.

Well then, the US should 'go first' to show China the way, right?

now there's a political FOX cartoon for you. All 'bad' things in a venn diagram that's a circle, with Obama in the middle!

CO2 increases do raise temps. Methane increases do the same. Perhaps not buy a huge amount but at least you agree they do have effect. Water vapor is largely driven by temperature. So the small increase of CO2/methane causes increase in water vapor concentrations....Which causes a large increase as you so deftly note. Now that increase causes more increase. It's called a feedback loop for a reason.

criminal? fraudulent? subversive?

And I agree the argument hasn't been made well enough, but keeping non-vaccinated kids out of an environment where they are in very close contact with others does help the herd. No vaccine is perfect and so extracting those who have a higher chance to harbor a disease is better than letting them in.

Eventually we're all out in public together and at work, but it's still not the same as the petri-dish that are kindergarten or elementary education environments