# 2 Google: Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) Talk, then Write Which one do you find to be more accurate? Why? Which video was sponsored by an oil company? How would this sponsorship affect the way fracking is shown? Fracking: America’s Energy Solution Live at Five transcript, Lucia Hernandez, February 20, 2014 let me explain what fracking or hydraulic fracturing means. Fracking is a process that increases – – output from an oil or natural gas well. Fracking uses water pressure to break rock around a well. Oil and natural gas then pass through the openings in the rock and are pumped out of the well. Fracking is vital to America’s future. It improves our countries’ energy security. Today, the United States imports the majority of its oil from other countries around the world like unstable Venezuala and Iraq. Problems in these countries could disrupt our oil supply leading to higher energy prices. Increasing domestic
# 2 Google: Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) Talk, then Write Which one do you find to be more accurate? Why? Which video was sponsored by an oil company? How would this sponsorship affect the way fracking is shown? Fracking: America’s Energy Solution Live at Five transcript, Lucia Hernandez, February 20, 2014 let me explain what fracking – or hydraulic fracturing – means. Fracking is a process that increases output from an oil or natural gas well. Fracking uses water pressure to break rock around a well. Oil and natural gas then pass through the openings in the rock and are pumped out of the well. Fracking is vital to America’s future. It improves our countries’ energy security. Today, the United States imports the majority of its oil from other countries around the world like unstable Venezuala and Iraq. Problems in these countries could disrupt our oil supply leading to higher energy prices. Increasing domestic
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