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The basic argument of the article is that the lower the price for oil, the less lucrative it is to drill and therefore, the more of it stays in the ground. Fracking really took off when crude went to $90/bbl.
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I understand that. I'm just adding that there's secondary benefits to curbing this type of behavior and it's not just isolated to carbon emissions. There's all sorts of problems in the whole chain, from the extraction, processing, transportation, to eventual use of fossil fuels. It's important that we keep this stuff in the ground, but it's also important to remember why.