[.cnI redruM]

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.

[banjo joe]

Like most liberals and other economic illiterates
This is the line of day and will be posted to my cache of memorable one-liners.