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RE: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due -- STEEMIT.COM Referenced in Guns.com News Article
Somehow they're making the oil companies out as the bad guys...even though they have followed every law thrown at them.
they might adhere to the law but they definitely don't consider the repercussions of their following the law that they have greased for who knows how long. For example, the gulf spill, valdez and others. They have generated profits in the BILLIONS sometimes on a quarterly basis and yet after sucking out the oil made naturally under Everyone's EARTH, they can't even help by lowering gas prices or hell, spend some of those Billions and just go around. If these people are asking nicely, and it is their Land with sacred burial grounds, then do the RIGHT THING, not what will make you and your investors more money but what will serve these people better who are asking peacefully to go around. We supposedly put men on the moon, but can bend a pipe to go around their land?
actually it's NOT their land. All that was checked out in the permitting process. They DID..bend the pipe around their land...the path of the pipline was known for a long time. Then...someone changed their minds. The 'first peoples' are tresspassing.
@everittdmickey To be honest, I am not particularly fond of any of the oil companies. Do I consume and burn fuel, unfortunately yes. Someday, and hopefully soon, it will be more conducive to use a different form of energy consumption. I have had a Nissan Leaf lease but it was inconvenient and impractical for my needs. So we will have to agree to disagree because it seems as though we both have made up our minds.
your argument boils down to "yah...BUT!"
you don't like OIl companies BUT...you buy their product.
you want 'alternative' energy transportation BUT...it's too inconvenient.
See how you are?
Typical.
semantics, land or river it doesn't matter. Oil is dirty and toxic. And yes, my home is wired for electricity and my car is made for gasoline, something I myself can not help. When electrical cars where coming into existence in the 70's, oil companies did their best to squash the Volt, or am I wrong. Corp-ocracy, especially from such a strong lobbying group as the oil industry, is the rule of the day. But someday, hopefully someday people will come before money. Today is not that day. (proof is Standing Rock)
Tesla and a few others are working on that change as far as energy consumption. They will hopefully remove the "inconvenient" which you noticed so well, and the impratical (which you left out). Hopefully oil companies might take their Billions and help the poor, the sick and the needy. Oh that's right, there is no profit without taking, raping, looting and polluting.
ps. I forgot to mention that these same oil giants used to claim that LEAD in the gasoline was good "for us."