More government control inevitably leads to the loss of rights, be it property rights as in New York where the Governor has banned Fracking, or other rights.
If what you do on your property has an adverse affect on your neighbor (and on HIS property rights) then we have to find a balance between the rights of both.
Yes, I know the claim was about Fracking's risk to the water bearing strata as well as surface water, but its an open fact that the the real opposition is based on AGW. You can do fracking in such a way as to mitigate the other issues, but AGW idiots don't want to hear it. So basically a NYC politician basically told upstate landowners to basically go fuck themselves.
You are asking people to make assumptions here based on no evidence but your opinion. I find that often when posters say things like "common knowledge" and "open fact" is really means "accept what I am saying without any supporting documentation. Maybe you are convinced and you get to pick and choose what evidence you use to reach your conclusions. Others are free to use different criteria if THEY choose.
But whatever motivations you attribute to whoever - the fact remains that sometimes rights collide - often when that happens the people we have elected have to weigh the competing interests and make a call. If they make that decision based on the best information available, then that's about the best we can hope for.
So basically roll over, and let government fuck you up the ass.
Great.
Not the approach I would suggest.
I haven't trusted the U.S. government to "get it right" for quite some time now.
I do think folks need to educate themselves with the best information available and then hold our governments feet to the fire to make the best decisions on our behalf. I do NOT believe that includes artificially jacking up energy costs on people who are already struggling, just to try to make it more expensive so they will use less.
My personal opinion is that we need an effort - a public-private partnership kinda like NASA and the moon landing project. We didn't have the technology to do THAT when we committed to it. In that same vein, I think we need to commit to a huge private-public partnership on energy and energy technology. I think that's our best bet to come up with a sustainable and affordable energy future.
And all the hyper-partisan rhetoric and lies from BOTH sides is not going to help make that happen. It is going to make it damn near impossible. So if this information IS correct, buy a snorkle.
