Ren21 Argument Essay

1. For my television commercial I used the popular Sham wow infomercial. According to the site the Sham Wow is “a washcloth, which will dry, and polish any surface. They are like a towel, chamois, and sponge all in one--except they're extremely absorbent and can be used over and over.” However, a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America gives Sham Wow a “C” and says it’s a normal towel so why have so many Americans fallen for the gimmick?

In today's global economy, energy is one of the most crucial and sought after commodities. Who supplies it and how much they supply determines how much influence they have over other countries as well as the global economy. This is why hydraulic fracturing is currently such an important and controversial topic in the United States. Hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as "fracking" or hydrofracturing, is the process of using pressurized liquids to fracture rocks and release hydrocarbons such as shale gas, which burns more efficiently than coal. This booming process of energy production provides a much needed economic boost, creating jobs and providing gas energy for Americans. The efficiently burning shale gas reduces carbon

When you woke up today chances are you turned on a light, used the stove, drove a car, or charged your cell phone. The energy used to power those devices was powered by hydrocarbons like natural gas or oil. Natural gas and oil are accessed by drilling, but drilling can 't always reach all the potential hydrocarbons. There are many pockets full of oil and gas below the surface trapped in between shale rock that typical drilling can 't access. What this means is there is a plethora of energy beneath our nation just waiting to be tapped. Enter, fracking.

Fracking has brought the world’s energy supply from a crisis level to a stable supply that supports global energy demands. As energy prices rose and the energy supply slowly decreased, experts began to

I’m writing to inform Holt Renfrew that due to my ongoing intractable medical condition, I will not be able to return to work as originally intended, and I will need to postpone my return indefinitely at this juncture. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, my health is still nowhere near where it needs to be in order for me to return to work. I’m hoping that between my family doctor and the Wasser Pain Management Centre a new treatment plan can be devised in the foreseeable

Americans have had an insatiable appetite for the consumption of fossil fuels. Since the Industrial Revolution our preference had evolved from coal to oil, petroleum, and natural gas. Over the last century we’ve gone from drilling our own wells to building pipelines to importing fossil fuels from the Middle East, Venezuela, Canada and Russia, and today we are back producing our own fuel through a process called fracking. Fracking is the direct result of energy companies using cutting edge technologies to combine the processes of traditional hydraulic drilling and horizontal drilling, which allows us to effectively harvest natural gas here in the United States

With shale natural gas now on the horizon in the United States of America, many supporters of the horizontal hydraulic fracturing industry are looking at the economic benefits of fracking shale. The current horizontal drilling abilities provided “23.608 quadrillion Btu [of just shale natural gas alone] in 2011” (Hassett and Mathur 2014). This number in terms of energy production marked the “USA [as] the second largest natural gas producer” (Hassett and Mathur 2014) as of the year 2011. Since 2011, the production of natural gas in the United States has been raised even higher as more and more states lift their moratoriums on fracking and new natural gas hotspots are discovered.

The debate over fracking cannot simply be limited to the discussion of environmental impact and health concerns. While these subjects are critically important to our future, so is the economic stability of the United States and its energy security that has been a point of major concern for decades. Until recent years, the hydrocarbon industry has been lead by Middle Eastern OPEC nations, and by natural gas production in places like Russia. For the last three consecutive years, the United States has

“Our country will have drilled and fracked our way down a blind alley for a short lived energy boom” (qtd. In …). Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gases inside. Many people are referring to fracking as an energy revolution that will last America at least 100 years. What they don’t know is that at the rate we are going, it wont last us 40, and the effects that it has on the environment will make earth’s lifespan shorter too. We need to stop hydraulic fracturing because it is wasteful, harms water reservoirs, and is hazardous to people and the environment.

Anyone who has followed the news in the past few years has seen or heard something about hydro-fracturing or fracking for short. Even though fracking isn't a new technology, recent innovations and techniques have made this process much more cost effective giving gas and oil companies more incentive to implement it on a greater scale. The increased use of fracking to increase production in the oil and gas industries has brought this technology into the news and made it one of the most fiercely debated topics in recent times. Pro-fracking supporters claim that shale gas and the fracking process will be the savior of our nation and provide foreign energy independence for many years to come. The anti-fracking community raises concerns about the environment that will affect not only this generation but also generations to come. I believe that the hydraulic fracking process used to increase the extraction of natural gas and oil is dangerous to the environment and needs additional research and stiffer regulations.

Fracking can extract a large amount of resources compared to other methods of exploitation that we used before. Since 2013, production of natural gases in the United States has been climbing rapidly, especially in shale gas. Shale gas has driven U.S production to a record level. In 2010, it is recorded that 1 million of barrels of oil per day are produced. But in 2013, the year with booming application of fracking, the generated barrels of oil per day were tripled, approximating 3 million daily. It could be deduced that more drilling rigs had been installed during the 3-year interval. However, the increase in the number of rigs was not enough in explaining the leap in production of resources. It was the new technique, fracking, that expanded the oil and gas industry in the US. In addition, fracking might be a temporary method to solve the problem of soaring demand for energy. Depletion of resources is posting a great concern for many countries, including the US. Massive U.S industry nowadays is having a huge demand of energy. By using the modern Fracking techniques, oil and gas producers are now able to exploit resources from hard-rock formations deeply under the ground, which they could not do previously. This solidify our hope that by using Fracking, the energy industry of the U.S is no longer suffer from the lack of

The energy crisis and climate change are both topics that we hear about on a daily basis. We all know that the earth has only so much oil and coal. Not only are we running out of these resources, but we are also causing irreversible damage to the earth by continuing to use them. The world’s largest companies, richest entrepreneurs and the best scientists are working to create a solution to these problems. Billions of dollars are being invested into renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and many believe that they are viable options for the future. However one form of energy has become more popular in recent years and it isn’t a renewable resource. Natural gas extracted by hydraulic fracturing or more commonly known as fracking

The United States of America has invested more energy and resources into more expensive and more controversial methods of obtaining oil and natural gas such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing- the latter commonly known as fracking. However, the emerging American industry also poses severe political and environmental consequences.

Investing in fracking could be a potential solution as Amy Jaffe stated “By the 2020s, the capital of energy will likely have shifted back to the Western Hemisphere, where it was prior to the ascendancy of Middle Eastern mega-suppliers such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the 1960s.” The U.S could be the leader in the oil industry if they establish its oil dependency solely on fracking. The investment in fracking would be beneficial to the consumers of America as natural gas is now becoming the number one source of fuel and energy. According to John Deutch of MIT “In the United States today, oil is three times as costly as natural gas for a given amount of energy ($12 per million BTUs compared to $4 per million BTUs), and that is almost double the ratio that has prevailed over the past twenty years.” With that in mind, the low prices of fracturing natural gas would exploit the use of gasoline and the use of gas for winter homes. Those are some potential

This section will focus on the motivators of oil rich countries in the renewable energy field. Renewable energy can be defined simply as energy that comes from resources which are continually replenished by a period of time. From this simple definition it could be expected that use and introduction of renewable energy projects emerge and are promoted by countries with shortage of non-renewable sources and/or under a high risk of environmental degradation caused by those sources. Also it could be said that environmental awareness is higher in democratic countries with the accountability of the governing bodies, freedom of speech, press and etc. But especially in the last decade investments in the renewable energy projects significantly increased in oil rich countries.