The Associated Press published an article<\/a> earlier this week spot lighting some of the terrific work done by our Hollywood heroes and a few sorta-celebrities in fighting the good fight against evil energy companies and their tool of global destruction – fracking.\u00a0 I will say, the article did a fair job of presenting a balanced view of the issue and exposed a few of them for being the hypocrites that they are.\u00a0 A few of my favorite quotes from the article…<\/p>\n\u2014 Ono, at a news conference: “Fracking kills. And it doesn’t just kill us, it kills the land, nature and eventually the whole world.”<\/em><\/p>\n\u2014 Josh Fox, the director of “Gasland,” to the AP: “We have the capability of running everything in this country \u2014 including our fleet of 240 million cars \u2014 off of electricity from wind and from solar and from hydropower.” Fox said that society should be changing over “to renewable energy and doing it vigorously and quickly. 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