Despite abundant evidence to the contrary, the idea that rights become real if they're written down in laws and constitutions is prominent among the Left's many delusions. As I note in my article, the "right" to such tangible things as housing and healthcare is regulated not by people's needs but by the availability of finite resources. Constitutions that ignore this home truth, over-promising and under-delivering, are politically and socially destabilizing.
It’s sad that we don’t have the capability to build a floating LNG reception facility that we could park off Kiel or in the Scheldt estuary. We should be working around the clock to build LNG export facilities and overriding EPA and legal injunctions that have blocked natural gas pipelines in the States. We’re in a war, for God’s sake! That’s something we could have done during the Second World War.
Sep 6, 2022·edited Sep 6, 2022Liked by Claire Berlinski
Yes, but we’re such navel-gazing, narrow-minded NIMBYs that some group somewhere will block it. A couple of years ago, when Dominion Resources was trying to get a gas pipeline from West Virginia down to Charlotte, NC, with an export trunk line to Norfolk, VA, the glittering liberal urbanites from Richmond with vacation homes in Nelson County and the Democratic Socialists of Charlottesville moved heaven and earth, as well as a pile of Russian and Emirati cash, to block it. (A friend of mine who loves to wave his Ukrainian flag now was active in the movement, because he was afraid an underground gas line would hurt the property value of his crap weekend ski condo at Wintergreen Resort. At the same time, Richmond was raising gas prices on consumers. BLM, as long as it doesn’t hurt property values. Harrumph.) But this kind of NIMBY BS happens everywhere. Plus Biden would get impeached by his own party if he waived OSHA and EPA regulations to increase fossil fuel production.
On a lighter note, when Dominion shut down the project, the loggers clearing the right of way cut a set of male genitalia into the end of right of way that would make any Navy jet jockey jealous. It was beautiful, and just coincidentally next to Wintergreen. I sure hope it hasn’t hurt my friend’s property values.
Warren Buffett ended up buying the project from Dominion, and I’m sure he didn’t buy it for used forestry equipment and pipe. So, the environmentalists and their Russian overlords may have won in the short term, but it will eventually get done. Just not in time to save Europe. I was chatting on another Substack with a New Englander who said the exact same thing happened to them with a pipeline from Quebec to Boston and Connecticut. Russian interference isn’t only a rightwing problem.
We have same in lunatic New England. Our natgas comes through Boston terminal from Trinidad. Meanwhile American natgas a few hundred miles away can’t get here for lack of pipelines. Natgas by boat, train, truck, or scooter is less safe than pipeline, BTW.
Read Doomberg and Michael Shellenberger here on Substack about the rank idiocy. An energy and geopolitical disaster, easily prevented.
Interesting news from Chile. My take:
https://unwokeindianaag.substack.com/p/hubris-and-its-nemesis?r=dibcs&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Despite abundant evidence to the contrary, the idea that rights become real if they're written down in laws and constitutions is prominent among the Left's many delusions. As I note in my article, the "right" to such tangible things as housing and healthcare is regulated not by people's needs but by the availability of finite resources. Constitutions that ignore this home truth, over-promising and under-delivering, are politically and socially destabilizing.
70,000 Czechs is a LOT for such a modestly-sized country. That's alarming.
It’s sad that we don’t have the capability to build a floating LNG reception facility that we could park off Kiel or in the Scheldt estuary. We should be working around the clock to build LNG export facilities and overriding EPA and legal injunctions that have blocked natural gas pipelines in the States. We’re in a war, for God’s sake! That’s something we could have done during the Second World War.
Why don't we have that capability? Presumably we do, no?
Yes, but we’re such navel-gazing, narrow-minded NIMBYs that some group somewhere will block it. A couple of years ago, when Dominion Resources was trying to get a gas pipeline from West Virginia down to Charlotte, NC, with an export trunk line to Norfolk, VA, the glittering liberal urbanites from Richmond with vacation homes in Nelson County and the Democratic Socialists of Charlottesville moved heaven and earth, as well as a pile of Russian and Emirati cash, to block it. (A friend of mine who loves to wave his Ukrainian flag now was active in the movement, because he was afraid an underground gas line would hurt the property value of his crap weekend ski condo at Wintergreen Resort. At the same time, Richmond was raising gas prices on consumers. BLM, as long as it doesn’t hurt property values. Harrumph.) But this kind of NIMBY BS happens everywhere. Plus Biden would get impeached by his own party if he waived OSHA and EPA regulations to increase fossil fuel production.
On a lighter note, when Dominion shut down the project, the loggers clearing the right of way cut a set of male genitalia into the end of right of way that would make any Navy jet jockey jealous. It was beautiful, and just coincidentally next to Wintergreen. I sure hope it hasn’t hurt my friend’s property values.
Warren Buffett ended up buying the project from Dominion, and I’m sure he didn’t buy it for used forestry equipment and pipe. So, the environmentalists and their Russian overlords may have won in the short term, but it will eventually get done. Just not in time to save Europe. I was chatting on another Substack with a New Englander who said the exact same thing happened to them with a pipeline from Quebec to Boston and Connecticut. Russian interference isn’t only a rightwing problem.
We have same in lunatic New England. Our natgas comes through Boston terminal from Trinidad. Meanwhile American natgas a few hundred miles away can’t get here for lack of pipelines. Natgas by boat, train, truck, or scooter is less safe than pipeline, BTW.
Read Doomberg and Michael Shellenberger here on Substack about the rank idiocy. An energy and geopolitical disaster, easily prevented.