Irony in Action

So there I am, watching the Ed Show online on MSNBC.com, and Ed is railing about how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Look at the top right corner: Ed Asks: When Does the Greed Stop?

On the commercial break between videos, I get the image here, with a video. Erik Oswald, a geologist from ExxonMobile, tells us about how we didn't even know that there was all this precious natural gas "locked in the rock", and we just need to get at it.

What he doesn't get at in the short video commercial for how awesome ExxonMobile is: how to get at the precious natural gas that is "locked in the rock". They blow the rocks up, they drive chemicals into the rock, they frack the heck out of the land to get at the gas. Of course the impact of the fracking has been known to cause massive contamination in drinking water, even to the point that people have been known to have water so contaminated that it lights on fire from the tap.

I find it just horrifyingly ironic that MSNBC would be asking the question "When does the greed stop?" when they are taking advertising revenue from a company that is advertising on the idea that hydraulic fracturing is a "safe" method of extracting natural gas from the ground.

When does it stop? When you stop perpetuating it.