Bloomberg reports that fracking is being adversely affected by tariffs and lower-cost alternative sources. The Bloomberg article is behind a paywall, but the take-away is clear. Fracking isn’t thriving with the glut of gas. Yet energy producers refuse to leave it in the ground.

Fossil energy is expensive to produce even with fracking, and that production cost does not include pricing in the costs and damage from burning it as fuel or making it into plastics.