Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Common sense for once.
A long-running dispute between Conoco and a few hippie-ass envirotyrants in Idaho is finally and decisively resolved.
Amazingly, law and common sense prevailed, and the hippie-ass envirotyrants lost. A federal highway, which was built and funded by the taxpayers for the sole purpose of aiding communication and commerce, finally gets to be used for its intended purposes, and the rest of America and Canada will now have a better chance to develop more oil and natural gas resources.
Roads are not "holy sanctuaries" for prissy esthetic appreciation. You want esthetics, there are millions of ways to get esthetics without halting commerce and transportation to please your own goddamn Delicate Royal Aristocratic Ocular Apparatus.
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Admittedly, there's a deeper problem at the source. This hugely complicated transport route wouldn't have been needed if Conoco had built its refinery the old way, with American workers forging and fabricating everything on site from American steel panels. Those pieces could have been shipped routinely by normal rail or truck freight from Wheeling or Pittsburgh, and this mess wouldn't have been possible. But since Conoco chose the modular approach to minimize American labor, maximize Chinese profit, and maximize shipping, the hippies had a chance to break the system. ¶ 6:17 PM
Amazingly, law and common sense prevailed, and the hippie-ass envirotyrants lost. A federal highway, which was built and funded by the taxpayers for the sole purpose of aiding communication and commerce, finally gets to be used for its intended purposes, and the rest of America and Canada will now have a better chance to develop more oil and natural gas resources.
Roads are not "holy sanctuaries" for prissy esthetic appreciation. You want esthetics, there are millions of ways to get esthetics without halting commerce and transportation to please your own goddamn Delicate Royal Aristocratic Ocular Apparatus.
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Admittedly, there's a deeper problem at the source. This hugely complicated transport route wouldn't have been needed if Conoco had built its refinery the old way, with American workers forging and fabricating everything on site from American steel panels. Those pieces could have been shipped routinely by normal rail or truck freight from Wheeling or Pittsburgh, and this mess wouldn't have been possible. But since Conoco chose the modular approach to minimize American labor, maximize Chinese profit, and maximize shipping, the hippies had a chance to break the system. ¶ 6:17 PM
