It has been asserted by those on the Left, that simple transportation of energy resources offers unacceptable risks to the community-at-large.
Here is an article that underlines that assessment. (From The Chronicle, August 22, 2008.)
Fortunately, the device obviously fizzled. But that does not let off the hook those who were responsible for transporting this dangerous energy source in the first place.
The lessons here are evident: thou shalt not attempt to transport any form of energy. (Now I am waiting for the creation of a police state.)
This should point out for baby-boomers--or wannabee boomers--just how dangerous this energy transportation thing is. That the person(s) attempting this crime failed, I am sure that the American "Can Do" spirit will raise its head, until either we are left to pick-up the pieces, or simply to pick up pieces of the Left. To show us how dangerous the transportion of energy resources really is. To warn us. To instruct us.
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I blame the people who developed our transportation infrastructure. After all, if it wasn't for all of that infrastructure, ships, etc, it wouldn't be possible to transport energy.
I always say go right to the source.
I blame the man who had the first cognitive thought. If we had remained, as a species, unable to abstract, we'd all be Lefties, poor and dirty. (Laughs out loud.)
Okay, I'll grant that that outburst wasn't covered in the Sermon On the Mount.
I've been putting together a post on Edmund Burke, and if you've read Burke, one of the most important themes he wrote on was the importance of writing law that reflects the nature of man. Whether it's the slavery of the plantation owner, or the slavery of government, it's important that the law reflect the nature of man, not impose upon the nature of man.
Or, as my step-dad used to say, you want to put the sidewalks where people walk.
Before Goldschmidt, Oregon had one heckuva transportation plan. Projected loads. Traffic streams. Post-Goldschmidt, we started day-dreaming. Oh, no, that's not right. We began Visioning.
Don't believe me? How about The Vision. Hit AltaVista and type in "oregon transportation vision". It's creepy.
Moving people, product to places isn't any longer the role of your highway administration. But, I'm a revanchist. Trying to take back public places for use.
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"Or, as my step-dad used to say, you want to put the sidewalks where people walk."
In my part of the country, we are doing away with sidewalks in the name of reducing impervious surface area. We are also requiring mosquito habitats (swamps, or the left euphemism "wetland") to be built near new residential homes to help mitigate the impervious surface ares created by roads and roofs.
Don't get me wrong, swamps are fine. Just not next to homes.
Regarding the transportation of energy, it is very difficult to beat the stability and energy efficiency of transporting oil.
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