[Theoria]

Sure. However, domestic production is doesn't play by the similar rules of the game. Nor, does trans have any say over the direction of their product. So again, overseas markets will benefit from the taking of land and property in the US.

[okie01]

So again, overseas markets will benefit from the taking of land and property in the US.

What, exactly, do you mean by "taking of land and property"?

Aren't you aware that pipelines are buried underground, then they're covered up -- leaving the land as it was before?

Landowners are paid appropriately for a lease on the underground right-of-way and for any crop which might be destroyed (or remain unplanted) because of the construction process. Then, the land is returned to production.

Happens all the time around here -- in the Barnett shale -- as collection pipelines are laid to new wells. Farmers and ranchers are adequately compensated and, within a year, there's no surface indication of where the line was laid.

Nor are there any complaints...