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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Look how the USA now has no fuel dependence due to fracking, great idea

The US has individual STATES with more land area than the entire UK. They can frack without it being under homes, motorways and active farmland. There's a difference.

It's also a temporary patch-up job, hoovering up the last dribbles of finite resources... a better solution is still going to need to be found eventually. But that's a problem for another day, I guess.