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> Coronavirus May Kill Our Fracking Fever Dream

So at a time where Coronavirus has showed us the importance of supply chains not being overseas for national security we are learning to not be energy independent?

It's almost like someone takes a premise "Fracking is bad" and adds words around it to keep people happy with that premise and gets... clicks?

I don't think the article is suggesting that the US not be energy independent but rather just that fracking isn't providing that.
Energy independence matters when oil is scarce and trades at $100/barrel or more. Not when oil trades at $20/bbl and there are places where it has a negative price.
It matters, but not at the cost of polluted groundwater, people getting sick, and triggering earthquakes. There are other ways; nuclear, solar, and wind are among them.
As I understand it, fracking doesn't even make economic sense at $70+ oil... The whole industry uses accounting scams to stay alive.
Fracking produces lots of methane and pollutes lots of water while being expensive, we can do away with it.
Fracking is expensive and dirty and benefits the worst types of people in the US.