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Stossel’s Energy Myth Busting

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    FBN’s John Stossel dismisses some common myths about energy and energy policy.

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Six you know we talk a lot about gas prices on this program and oil and green energy and electric cause but how much do you really know about all of those things.

-- what to -- fossil is trying to find out.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Interest also is -- -- he's gonna -- some of the most common myths about gas and energy myth number one -- That would got to run out of oil.

We've been saying that for years people have been saying and asked a peak oil but humans being.

Inventive keep finding new ways to suck more oil -- the ground -- -- the same wells often and doesn't look likely to estimate the math missed them -- number two electric cars are better for the environment.

Or that they'll say get money is this woman said that it -- they don't even say good money after you get a handout from the government.

And it's a watch that electric car gets electricity from coal plants most of that even the National Research Council says the environmental impact of making electric cars is up the 20% greater.

Then conventional cars myth number three fracking.

That's the fracturing of shale under the ground to exclude.

Somebody can be beheaded in Saudi responsibly but it's been done lots of years very few problems.

And -- God for fracking that's -- given us more natural gas we use less coal which is the worst fuel.

And you get irresponsible at the filmmakers make in this documentary like gasoline which shows -- lighting their faucet.

We'll be investigated that it turned out that was unnatural.

Methane leak that somebody had in Colorado.

And that happens not to do with -- yet that and remember about shots of for someone could forget.

Shot it is against -- -- I think I've got some personal experience of this is -- -- -- place up in the Catskills on how to petunias with -- gone up.

You get this dreadful smell coming on the war and a and you could actually light the war -- This is ten years ago fracking was on the hood of in that area ten years ago but it fracking was blamed the lights in the water in that particular building that is a myth.

You -- -- won't -- fix your well.

Yeah I mean that's one of those things where -- fracking looks dangerous environment there's a lot of PR -- right now but it when there's a problem it's always a results of it is a break in the well a crack in the -- something that went wrong that shouldn't have it's not that naturally you if you do it the right way it is not -- Which they won't always stupid thing you can -- -- -- get better better all the time another -- most people think we get our gas from overseas get our oil from overseas most of it comes from there are from America.

Most of what we import comes from Canada and Mexico not definitely lots of myths to be dispelled that you'll do it tonight on who gets its cold Stossel is at 9 o'clock in the Fox Business outlook -- -- -- -- -- --

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