I wasn't trying to refute anything. I was just providing some context about the economics of fracking that I believed to be interesting to other HN readers.
Similar remarks have also been made by people in the oil and gas industry, it's not just an environmentalist meme:
the technology that enables unconventional oil and gas production resulted in a 4-fold increase in oil and gas drilling costs from 2003 to 2014
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I wasn't trying to refute anything. I was just providing some context about the economics of fracking that I believed to be interesting to other HN readers.
Similar remarks have also been made by people in the oil and gas industry, it's not just an environmentalist meme:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurberman/2017/07/05/shale-g...