I was a lurker for years before I joined.
And bashing dissenting voices as trolls is something I expect on DU or dailykos, those people are nuts. But it should not happen here.
The opinions I gave are the exact same opinions you would have gotten from such people as Rush Limbaugh, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, or any conservative/libertarian economist.
The only justification for tax-payer money funding the pipeline were if the pipeline were a natural monopoly, but I haven’t seen anybody presenting evidence that that is so.
If they would allow drilling in ANWR we wouldn’t have to rely on foreign oil, thus saving Americans so much money, but of course the Dems and many Environmentalists are against it