A couple of months ago, I wrote about the ban placed on fracturing in Vermont. It was ludicrous. It was hilarious. It was misguided, based on faulty information. But, I do believe that those who supported and pushed the ban did so out of honest belief. Not so for the latest group of New York lunatics. Here is the deal. A group of chefs and food enthusiasts, who oppose fracturing and gas development in the Marcellus because, they claim, it puts their upstate New York source of vegetables and meats in danger, held an anti-fracturing fundraising dinner at the Brooklyn Winery in late July. Calling themselves Chefs for the Marcellus, the cooks provided their guests, who paid $125 each, with treats such as eggplant-stuffed okra, smoked lamb belly with fermented tofu and whipped ricotta jewel on toast, in addition to New York-sourced wines and beers. Sounds pretty nice, eh? But you may have figured out the irony here. Many, if not most, of the dishes were cooked over natural gas, some of which, undoubtedly, came from the Marcellus. That is in addition to the electricity from New York's gas-fired generators that kept the food chilled and the attendees comfortably air conditioned.
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