Agreed. It wasn’t the right answer, but it was the one the government pursued.

Fracking was our answer to energy independence.

It has potential to be a good rocket, but I’ll be interested to see if it becomes the revolutionary rocket that Elon says it will be.

That is based on $67,000,000 per falcon 9 launch. I suspect it cost SpaceX way less to launch than that even though they might bill that amount to customers.