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Pence family's failed gas stations cost taxpayers $20M+ (leftist Yahoo News)
Yahoo ^ | July 13, 2018 | Brian Slodysko

Posted on 07/15/2018 8:42:24 AM PDT by gattaca

GARDEN CITY, Ind. (AP) -- Vice President Mike Pence turns nostalgic when he talks about growing up in small-town Columbus, Indiana, where his father helped build an empire of more than 200 gas stations that provided an upbringing on the "front row of the American dream."

The collapse of Kiel Bros. Oil Co. in 2004 was widely publicized. Less known is that the state of Indiana — and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois — are still on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells.

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1 posted on 07/15/2018 8:42:24 AM PDT by gattaca
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To: gattaca

I did find it on Fox, too.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/14/cleanups-at-pence-familys-failed-gas-stations-costing-taxpayers-millions-report.html


2 posted on 07/15/2018 8:45:08 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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Gosh, they really have to reach to smear Pence, don’t they?


3 posted on 07/15/2018 8:45:34 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.a)
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To: gattaca

Gotta love another attack piece.

Never mind the fact that the EPA rules were changed in the late 90s forcing many of these gas stations into bankruptcy because they couldn’t upgrade to the newer tanks. So they all languished and rotted.


4 posted on 07/15/2018 8:47:02 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: gattaca

So did the “media” also calculate the total taxes that the Pence companies PAID over its lifetime?

For some reason, I think not.


5 posted on 07/15/2018 8:47:39 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: gattaca

Chuck Schumer never held a job in the private sector.


6 posted on 07/15/2018 8:49:50 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Skywise

New headline: The EPA forced the Pence family business into bankruptcy.

So instead of running the family business, Mike Pence went into politics. The LEFT put Mike Pence on the road to the White House.


7 posted on 07/15/2018 8:51:44 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing and we lose.)
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To: originalbuckeye

“Gosh, they really have to reach to smear Pence, don’t they?”

Is the information true, or not?

If true, it’s not a smear.


8 posted on 07/15/2018 8:53:41 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: gattaca

Did the Pence Family manufacture the underground Gas Tanks?


9 posted on 07/15/2018 8:55:26 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Skywise
Yes, they pulled this "leaking tank" scam in California about 20 years ago.

From pushback.com: "You must remember the massive fraud on the public that was recently disclosed when the State Senate finally ordered a scientific review of the so-called leaking underground fuel tank threat by University of California scientists. The activities of ...the State Water Quality Control Board (SWQCB), have guaranteed that the big oil companies would have a monopoly in California and that prices would soar because it, SWQCB, systematically wiped out—bankrupted—most of the small service stations in California by claiming that leaking underground fuel tanks were contaminating our water supplies.... However, scientists at the University of California in a published report recently confirmed that not even one percent of this purported threat to ground water ever existed. Our Legislature waited twelve years to learn the truth. By that time, several billion dollars had been wasted, thousands of small businesses and service stations bankrupted, and over a hundred fifty thousand jobs wiped out for the wage-earners who found employment businesses."

10 posted on 07/15/2018 8:57:50 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: gattaca

You have nothing better to do, you yahoos? What is it? you gathering dirt for when Pence runs?


11 posted on 07/15/2018 9:03:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: gattaca

Nobody used double tanks back then.

Gas station site cleanups are pretty much routine everywhere.


12 posted on 07/15/2018 9:05:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kipp

Yes this is one of the most costly scams perpetrated by the EPA on an unsuspecting public.


13 posted on 07/15/2018 9:07:29 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: I want the USA back

He could call this “old news”. Worked for the Clintons.


14 posted on 07/15/2018 9:08:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Pence family’s failed gas stations cost taxpayers $20M+ (leftist Yahoo News

Oh, the horror, oh, the angst, oh, the tragedy. Stupid, moron libs spill more than that on the bar...every day. Pure BS news, as usual from libs.

Oh...and how many jobs did 200 stations provide while they were operating? How much to the economy did they contribute? No mention of that, of course.


15 posted on 07/15/2018 9:10:33 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Mariner

Was Pence himself, responsible for it? No? Then it is a smear against him.


16 posted on 07/15/2018 9:11:57 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.a)
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To: Mariner

Is the information true, or not? If true, it’s not a smear.”

as usual with such fake news, it’s partially true, but with the rest of the story left out ... there are tens of thousands of these abandoned, rusting steel underground gas station tanks all over the country, most of which are so old that everyone has forgotten where they are, and they are only discovered when someone digs to build a new building.

until fiberglass tanks went into use in the last couple of decades every gas station in the country used steel tanks, almost all of them underground ...

furthermore, based on my understanding of the relatively recent EPA rules about abandoned underground tanks, and the several situations that I’ve personally known about with friends with businesses who’ve discovered these things on their property, or property they just bought, is that the responsibility for mitigation solely, and in perpetuity, belongs to whomever currently owns the property with the abounded tanks ...

thus:

A. Pence’s family is being singled out in a seriously biased fashion for a common situation that affects tens of thousands of people through no fault of their own, and

B. I don’t know why the state’s are supposedly on the hook for cleanups: all my friends and acquaintances had to bare the financial burdens of cleanup all by themselves.

In other words, this is a typical leftist fake stream media hit piece ...


17 posted on 07/15/2018 9:13:28 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: gattaca

If the AP really wanted to pin anything on the Republicans, they’d do their homework on tetraethyl lead and Coolidge’s Surgeon General, Hugh Cumming.

Perhaps we should also look at a political motivation behind Truman’s Oscar Ewing and the expansion of fluoridation in the US.

Nah. Let’s ignore all the democrat gas stations taxpayers have subsidized for their environmental messes, too. /s

Such a dishonest political story, but no surprise here.


18 posted on 07/15/2018 9:13:47 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Kipp

Also you couldn’t find a gas station for miles and miles.


19 posted on 07/15/2018 9:17:00 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Nor did Bernie Sanders.


20 posted on 07/15/2018 9:19:06 AM PDT by jch10 (Somebody has got to do something.)
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