Opponents key in on two or three generalized arguments against it, but there are dozens of specific outcomes of the TPP that are better than the status quo for most Americans. There is also a more effective way to garner support. Fracking and Farming Just as high prices and technology enabled American agricultural production to expand greatly, $140/barrel crude oil and hydraulic fracking facilitated a 71 percent increase in U.S. oil production between 2010 and 2015. When Saudi Arabia and other OPEC producers refused to curb their own production, so-called experts warned that U.S. shale producers would be the big losers. Spin forward to 2016, and the Wall Street Journal reports that while 100 North American energy producers have gone bankr...

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