Pipeline protests are about as smart as a rock, standing or sitting
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I live in Texas where pipelines are pretty common. There is one across the road from my property and I cross others just going to town. The people who own and operate these pipelines have an interest in seeing that they do not lose the product they are transporting or cause a situation where they would have to clean up a mess at great expense.
The protestors would lower everyone's standard of living and transportation options. The protest appears to have attracted a lot of people who don't understand the consequences of their protests.
The state is trying to prevent the protesters from freezing to death. I hope they use fossil fuels to keep them warm.
The anti-energy left, which wants to keep fossil fuel it is not using to attend protests, in the ground is just using these people to run up the cost of the safest form of transporting fossil fuels.
Standing Rock Protesters, Ordered to Leave, Dig In
“I ain’t going nowhere,” one man said as he and fellow pipeline protesters on the frozen prairie prepared for what may be their last stand.
I live in Texas where pipelines are pretty common. There is one across the road from my property and I cross others just going to town. The people who own and operate these pipelines have an interest in seeing that they do not lose the product they are transporting or cause a situation where they would have to clean up a mess at great expense.
The protestors would lower everyone's standard of living and transportation options. The protest appears to have attracted a lot of people who don't understand the consequences of their protests.
‘The world is watching’: Voices from Standing RockI question their intelligence and their motives. How many of those people walked to the protest from their home? How many of them have rubber soles on their shoes? Returning to the 18th-century mode of transportation, heating, and cooling homes or dealing with inefficient alternatives makes no sense. There are no viable alternatives to the petrochemical business that creates plastics, fertilizer, and other products.
Native Americans and military veterans. Environmentalists and police. Cattle ranchers and lumberjacks. College students and nurses. All have been drawn to a desolate North Dakota prairie, site of an oil pipeline that has become a powerful symbol of heritage and history, progress and oppression, indigenous rights and corporate might.
The state is trying to prevent the protesters from freezing to death. I hope they use fossil fuels to keep them warm.
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