Posted on 11/17/2004 10:30:52 AM PST by Smile-n-Win
America's domestic shortage of natural gas is, as Alan Greenspan has observed, "a very serious problem." Fortunately, there is a proven technology that could enable Americans to access plentiful natural gas stores from overseas: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)--natural gas cooled and condensed into a portable liquid, 1/600th its original volume. Given these facts, one might expect energy-short state governments to eagerly approve corporations' proposals for new LNG facilities; instead, bowing to pressure from environmentalists, they are repeatedly rejecting them.
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The environmentalists' proclamations of danger and doom are not honest errors based on an overzealous concern for human safety and well-being--they are a dishonest scare-tactic to make their anti-industrial policies appealing to those who do not share the environmentalist belief that nature should be preserved at human expense. Observe that environmentalists are utterly indifferent to the human toll of abandoning "unsafe" technologies--of natural gas shortages, of the $200 million lost by apple-growers over the Alar scare, of the energy crises created by anti-nuclear, anti-fossil fuel policies, of the millions who continue to die unnecessarily due to the DDT ban.
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It's about controlling who gets to make money in the energy business and assuring higher prices for energy feedstocks. The major stockholders use their tax-exempt foundations to fund the greenies to get the rules they want. They can thus maintain an artificial scarcity by means of preferential regulation.
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People make a fundamental error in assuming that any of these left wing activists groups actually give a hoot about what they are agitating for.
Some are just fronts for other causes. Many are just professional fundraisers that exist for no other purpose.
bonk
just ask the Unabomber or Al Gore.
Their manifestos read the same.
ping
BTTT!!!!!!!
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