Re: Motivation for the Oil Barons

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:18:31 -0700, Fred Weiss wrote:

> On Jun 4, 6:31 pm, The Trucker <mik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> ...the American voters.
> 
> Well, there are at least a few sensible voters somewhere in this
> country.
> 
> "Union County approves zoning ordinance for Hyperion"
> 
> Predictably, the enviroNazis, though defeated at the polls, "vowed to
> keep fighting the controversial project on every imaginable front,
> pressing on with a lawsuit it filed against the county over the zoning
> procedures and opposing Hyperion as it applies for a bevy of state and
> federal permits."
> 
> But this is precisely why we have not had a new oil refinery built in
> the country in 32 years. It is disgusting that a company should even
> have to be subjected to a vote on such venture and that it should have
> to endure this kind of opposition.
> 
>
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/06/04/news/top/4e608d46402d5adb8625745e00110beb.txt
> 
> But it is at least encouraging that the project will move forward.

There is a NEW WAVE.  It is called rationality.  Catch it.

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