I support eminent domain for the public good, a bridge, highway, the city water treatment plant and so on, even a utility such as a power line serving a community. But this pipeline does not serve everyone in the communities it passes through, or even at it's terminus. It serves big oil and refiners, and foreign oil users. Much of the oil to be moved through this pipe will be refined near the gulf coast in "free trade zones" (we get no tax money on it) and shipped to Europe. Valero one of the two end of pipe refiners has most of this oil sold already to Europe. I say make the oil companies buy it, anyone will sell if the price is high enough, if not buy an elbow fitting and go around it. Wake up Texas, that wonderful myth of what's good for oil is good for Texas is a bit sour among farmers. Sure, a few wanted to sell, begged to sell, but not every guy in a pickup likes having his land yanked from under him.
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If you suspected that Bush and Halliburton plotted for the oil in Iraq, you need to read this. Those pricks set policy for the army, they did their best to wreck the oil industry from well head to port and in between. The goal was to let the worlds oil companies come in after it was destroyed and all talent had been fired and run off. England was in on it to, working with the US to tear it up to take it over. This is an excellent story. http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175586/
Fringe: I enjoy reading ur posts.I'm out of the "Social/Political Rant" buiness and am focused on provoking higher thought,peroid! Lord knows the sheeples are without the ability to engage in independent thought. The Sheeples eat social rants with their personal black hole. I see a social/political rant is a waste of my time unless I never heard it mentioned ever, anywhere:)
ReplyDeleteThere that's my thought provoking antisocial rant! :=)))))
Thanks Pops, keep working on that higher thought project, it is a worthy goal and I like it. I will continue to hit randomly at the punching bag, one day I may get in a good punch.
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