Electric cars must be a "hoax" too then.
Almost all new technology is cost-prohibitive at start-up.
Fracking has been around so long, if it was a hoax, it would have imploded long ago.
If it ruined water wells and blew fire out of my sink faucet, that would have happened in the 70s as we've had wells at least since then and even before that in the area. And they've never quit, the wells that is.