New York is obviously holding out for more Federal money - you and I paying for their environmental agenda. Otherwise, it’s no skin off my shin of NY refuses to take advantage of natural resources under their feet.
The only thing NYC did for the US foster Wall Street whose reckless behavior with paper destroyed 11 million American jobs and almost destroyed the world economy with their toxic assets and derivatives. At least the oil and gas companies produce honest products that can be accounted for, sold and exchanged for real money vs Wall Street paper games that even federal regulators could not understand. If the US wants to recover, dump Wall Street and embrace honest products produced by mines and factories.
As a former NYer, I say let them tax the idiots to death while prosperity abounds around them. People will move out lowering the tax base forcing even higher taxes.
The environmentalists’ opposition for selfish reason is similar to what is occurring in the U.K. There, environmental groups oppose the construction of a Lithium plant. It is clean, low-risk and has no waste issues. The dangerous factor for environmentalists, however, is that it can process dangerous nuclear waste from Nuclear plants, converting it to harmless material. This enrages environmentalists, since the danger of nuclear waste has been their biggest talking point against nuclear energy. They can’t articulate this, so they have become quite irrational, though of course no less effective among their constituency.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the president of the environmentalist Waterkeeper Alliance
This is the problem, him and his other family member working for Hugo Chavez.
Only in NY where more people have left than arrived every year for the past ten years.
Only in NY where, in my Town, the cost to educate a single student in a mediocre school system, is over $24,000/year.
Only in NY where 90% of Long Island Railroad employees retire with disability benefits.
Ah yes... New York. Land of the giant sucking sound.
But this story is continuing proof of why Upstate needs its own state.
As a New Yorker I can honestly say that the only loser in this situation is...New York State. The state that led the country in commerce in the early 1800’s by building the Erie Canal has decided to put itself on the sidelines during the greatest business boom of the 21st century. Farmers along the southern tier of the state are watching as their neighbors just to the south (in Pennsyltucky) are supplementing their farming business with NG money. If the Pennsyltuckians are smart enough to cash in on this boom why can’t New Yorkers?
Pennsyltucky should put a wellhead tax on the natural gas and pipe it over the border to NYS...which would result in New York gas consumers paying taxes to PA. Wouldn’t that be a hoot!
The garbage company in our area, Waste Management, has fitted a lot of their trucks to run on natural gas. I looked it up and they have over 1000 trucks running on it now.
As someone anxious to move out of the NY tax sink hole all I can say is — here’s why.