so another debate over energy rages on in america let's talk more about this i'm joined now by greg palast is an investigative journalist and author of the book voters picnic and pursuit of petroleum pegs power pirates and high finance carnivores affect to be out in bookstores on november fourteenth. welcome there so first of all i want to ask you what is fracking and what is so dangerous about it well fracking is brand new wave getting gas and oil only out really really use for about a decade or so. it what we do they do is they drill down then they go horizontal through shale deposits which normally couldn't get gas out of except then they use an explosive and blow through an explosion they blow sand through the pipe zillions of holes and then they dump chemicals and high pressure waters that wracks fractures the rock around the pipe when that pipe but when all that rock is fractured then the gas little gas bubbles within that rock start pouring through into the pipe and up the pipe now sounds good because this is now increased the amount of the actual gas that we can pull out of america

hoping that our water doesn't blow up greg thank you for coming on the show and wayne and i was greg palast investigative journalist and author of the buck walters picnic and pursued a controlling mpeg power pirate and high finance carnivores and it is coming to a bookstore near you and i remember fourteen. and since airing this interview we have gotten a lot of responses and i want to take the time to read one of them to you this is an email from niles make naro it reads in your story today you all talked about how we do not know what chemicals are used in fracking the main chemical used to extract oil via hydraulic fracking is acid over twenty five percent of acid production in the usa is going to oil operations i have to use it for work and i've seen a thirty percent jump in prices due to the nand in the last month look into it last time i checked it was not good in water supply it's an interesting perspective and some things we will be looking into keep your comments coming we are listening. the energy is part of the picture when it comes to the conflict with iran the country is there a