State Department Likely to Approve Oil Sands Pipeline Over the Objections of Environmental Lobbyists
26th August 2011
Environmentalists just aren’t happy with any technology that became useful after 1900. They want us to go back to riding horses and trains. Jerks.
August 26th, 2011 at 10:01
I’m waiting for the day they build a water pipeline from Lake Michigan to Texas and charge out the ass for it.
I think even the environmentalists would go for that one.
August 26th, 2011 at 10:59
The average annual rainfall for Houston Texas is 54 inches.
The average for Dearborn is 33 inches.
Keep your water.
August 26th, 2011 at 11:36
We don’t need rain; we have artesian springs.
For the last 50 years they’ve been pumping the water out of the Oglala Aquifer faster than it can replenish itself. Some spots in the Southwest have subsided by as much as six feet since the last geological survey, and things aren’t improving.
You’ll want the water. It’s just a matter of time.
August 26th, 2011 at 11:43
Oh, and here’s a link to a story about how Houston has just broken the record for 100 degree days, and how Texas is undergoing a severe drought due to lack of rainfall.
And Dearborn has had a record number of 100 degree days…well, never, actually. There’ve only been a handful of 100 degree days in the last decade, I believe.
Happy reading.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8320665
August 26th, 2011 at 12:47
Oh, look! Dennis can Google!
August 27th, 2011 at 15:21
And we’ll have it. We have the Gulf, and the oil. We can desalinate as much water as we’ll ever need. It’s you anti-oil people up in Canada South that will be drinking the industrial waste from the Lakes who’ll be in trouble.
August 27th, 2011 at 15:22
And people are still moving to Texas, and out of Michigan. What does that tell you?
August 28th, 2011 at 11:52
It tells me they’re short-sighted.
August 28th, 2011 at 12:23
Go ahead and depend on desalinization. Make sure you build them right next to Galveston, so the next big hurricane can knock them out. (While you’re at it, build a nuclear power plant on a fault line, for good measure. What could go wrong?)
Do you have any conception of the amount of water–and the subsequent number of plants–a state the size of Texas would require? For a fiscal conservative, you have a fuzzy grasp on the cost of technology…
And the oil won’t last forever. Texas hit peak production a number of years back. It’s only a matter of time, my friend, only a matter of time…
August 29th, 2011 at 09:56
If we need the water, we’ll pay for it, no matter what the cost. For a ‘progressive’, you have an entirely predictable total ignorance of economics.
Yeah, you guys keep muttering ‘peak production’ as if it were the magic beans you traded the cow for. The problem is that they keep discovering more.