Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump lashed back at Gov. John Kasich of Ohio by saying fracking is the only thing that saved his state’s economy.
“He got lucky with fracking,” said Trump, responding to Kasich’s tirade of criticisms of his rivals’ tax plans, including Trump’s at Wednesday night’s CNBC debate.
Trump fired back at Kasich’s economic record with fracking as the “only reason Ohio is doing well.”
Kasich responded that Ohio has a growing energy sector, but “we are diversified.”
“We came back from the dead” but energy is just one item, he said. “We are diversified.”
Ohio sits on portions of two major shale gas formations: the Marcellus and Utica shale regions. Fracking injects water and sand underground to extract natural gas and oil from shale rock miles underground.
