In our little town, a gravel mining operation is fighting a battle to open up a new section of an above ground mine. There is not problem with the mine itself, but the fact that the trucks hauling the rocks will have to travel over public roads is the reason for the stoppage of work. The locals are actually fighting because there may be as many as 12 trucks an hour passing their houses. I don’t know exactly how many jobs this will create, but the number will be zero if the locals have their way.
Jeeze ~~
Comment from above site .. shows ya, the John Galts who are old enough will surely be growing in #’s
“My dad closed his business after 30 years of operation because of the environmental theocracy. He wasn’t huge-just employed 6 uneducated, otherwise-unskilled workers. He wasn’t polluting – in fact, he was awarded a U.S. patent for a waste-free plating system.
But the government bureaucrats need someone to pursue to justify their own existence, and slapped him with a lawsuit demanding mounds of paperwork, fines for not previously keeping paperwork they way they liked (fines: $25k/day by statute), environmental impact statements, etc.
He shut down. He now owns nothing. He spends his days plays golf, with his model trains, and with his grandchildren. His only income is now Social Security.
His quote: “These government parasites spent years hounding and harassing me. I’ll parasite off them for awhile and see how they like it.”