Engineering360: "Study links fracking to increased traffic accidents, fatalities"

First time I've heard the argument that fracking causes traffic accidents...

A new study? More like a hit job. Come on CR4. You can do better than this.

"These additional crashes emerged mainly from collisions involving trucks, resulting from a higher traffic volume rather than a higher crash rate and occurring during daytime rush hours rather than during the rest of the day. Alcohol-involved crash drivers increased most likely due to their vulnerability to heavier fracking-induced traffic rather than more alcohol-involved truck drivers near the fracking sites."
Seems straight-forward to me...

Eating causes obesity

Drinking causes alcoholism

Sex causes babies

Increased traffic causes increase traffic accidents! Who knew?

It's pretty telling about the group doing the study. The first solution for the issue, is a tax.

Amen to that! Somewhere in the students statistics class they missed the point that correlation is not causation. The fact they came up with a tax as the solution tells me they've been properly indoctrinated in their wasted social studies classes.

Sounds like a candidate for an Ig-Nobel prize from the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Did you know that herring communicate by flatulence or that the world looks different if you bend down and look at it upside down between your legs?