Letter: Fracking's a loser for Pa., New York
Oil obtained from fracking is transferred into a tanker truck in North Dakota on Oct. 13, 2011. Credit: Bloomberg News
I had to laugh to keep from crying over the letter that said Donald Trump could win an election for governor and open up New York to hydraulic gas drilling ["Trump could win, and allow fracking," Feb. 21].
The writer cited Pennsylvania as a state that is booming because of fracking. This is so far from the truth as to be hilarious. Pennsylvania is in the bottom 10 states in the country for job creation and has a much worse economy than New York.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican who has pushed fracking and has taken large campaign contributions from the gas companies, is already trailing in the polls to Democratic challengers.
The writer also repeats Trump's claim that he could cut taxes in New York in half because of fracking. Again, nonsense. The United States will be the No. 1 oil producer in the world by 2015. What has this done for us? Gasoline prices are at $3.65 per gallon and rising, and natural gas and heating oil prices are rising again. Nothing has changed.
Robert Stadelman, Floral Park
