hilarious or 1 step away from a syfy original movie?

those crazy frakkers!  it seems almost funny, in a syfy original movie way, but this is all really tied to the sorta nutty idea of peak oil and associated horseshit.  as we deplete much of the easy and cheap-to-extract oil and natural gas, we will be using more of these difficult, dirty, dangerous and expensive methods to get our fix.  fracking, deep-water drilling, tar sands mining are all last-choice scenarios, so expect to see much more of this weirdness happening for the next century.  peak oil may not mean the last drop; it may wind up being more about the destructive extraction methods we are left with for the remaining oil and gas.  man-made earthquakes today, godzilla tomorrow.