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Gaseous rhetoric from crisis (Arizona Alert)
Scottsdale Republic Opinion Column ^
| Craig J. Cantoni
Posted on 08/27/2003 11:06:38 AM PDT by hsmomx3
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:21:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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There has been no shortage of gaseous rhetoric from Gov. Janet Napolitano, a lawyer by trade, about the gas shortage. Like most liberals and other economic illiterates, her immediate reaction was to blame private industry.
According to Mark Ellery of Napolitano's Commerce Department, the owner of the broken pipeline, Kinder Morgan Partners, has been trying for two years to get the government to approve permits for a new gasoline pipeline from Tucson to Phoenix. Two years.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: az; cantoni; gasshortages; napolitano; phoenix
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posted on
08/27/2003 11:06:38 AM PDT
by
hsmomx3
To: hsmomx3
The NIMBY paradigm has hit a wall twice this year. Once with the blackout and now twice with this gas shortage.
There is no free lunch. If we want electricity, we will have to build a generator. If we want gasoline, that requires a refinery.
We have to pay a price for modern convenience. That price is a certain amount of industry and a certain amount of environmental degradation. That is what's called a trade-off.
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posted on
08/27/2003 11:15:02 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Nothing Is More Vile Than A Blowhard With Halitosis! - redruM)
To: hsmomx3
Like most liberals and other economic illiterates
This is the line of day and will be posted to my cache of memorable one-liners.
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posted on
08/27/2003 12:01:41 PM PDT
by
banjo joe
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