Cuomo’s righteous regulators send pipeliners packin’
If you haven’t seen those laughable Start-Up New York television ads, then you must be one of those who has cut the cord. New York, a blue state with an oppressive tax and regulatory business atmosphere typical of those states where liberals infest the statehouses, has been running these promotional ads for a couple of years now, promising business owners and entrepreneurs big tax breaks if they’ll just relocate to New York. I call them laughable for the obvious reason: any business owner who does due diligence is going to find that Andrew Cuomo and his bureaucratic accomplices are liberal to the core, to the point of screwing their own citizens on even the basic standards of living to uphold their liberal values.
Living far from the Northeast and disinclined to travel there, I really have no dog in this fight other than a few energy investments. However, after watching another of those incessant commercials, I opened an email from an energy investment source to learn that the State of New York’s regulatory agencies had ruled against construction of two natural gas pipelines that would have brought badly needed natural gas in great abundance to the blue states of the Northeast, where inexpensive fuel for heating homes and powering industry is habitually in short supply. The liberal insanity inherent in promoting a business-friendly environment while simultaneously preventing a cheap fuel source for those businesses inspired these observations.
There is a huge reservoir of natural gas trapped in a geologic formation called the Marcellus Shale that underlies an area extending from West Virginia up through Ohio and Pennsylvania and into western and upstate New York. There is enough natural gas in this formation to meet the needs of the Northeast and more for generations, ending their dependence on imported energy supplies from distant, expensive sources, driving down costs in an area that historically pays substantially more than any other region of the nation.
So all they need is for the energy companies that have found and produced this natural gas to spend a few billion dollars building pipelines to get their product from the Marcellus fields to the eastern markets, right? Well, the energy companies agree, and aware of the strict regulatory barriers they face in crossing these blue states, primarily New York, the eager Start-Up State, they studied the situation with all its challenges and duly submit their proposals to the regulatory bureaucrats in New York.
“Nope,” say the bureaucrats to the cheers of the liberal environmentalists/anti-fossil fuelists who would much rather see millions of New Yorkers and New Englanders shivering in their homes in mid-winter as fuel imports run low, than allow these horrid Big Oil companies bring a plentiful supply of their product to a market where it is much needed, ensuring that basic creature comforts are met in these blue states and done so at a reasonable price. It’s called basic economics, folks, but as we all know, that sort of reasonable rational thinking simply does not find a pollination receptor anywhere in the liberal brain cavity, especially those awarded the coveted status of government bureaucrat, the liberal brass ring.
Let ’em grab it with their cold blue fingers as they contemplate the insanity that is liberal logic.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: Politics
You can’t fix stupid….
“Here’s your sign”
I keep expecting orders for Politician Correction Kits to start booming anytime now. . . . .
“Rope, Tree, Politician. Some Assembly Required”
Maybe I should change the wording from “Politician” to “Libtard”, and then have a partial list of synonyms: Leftists, DemonRats, Liberal Politicians, Environazis, Ivory Tower Liberals, SJWs, GOPe RINOs, Progressives, etc.
Think that would help boost sales?
Isn’t this rather like the King forbidding his peasant subjects to cut trees for cooking and heating fuel, because doing so spoils his woodland hunting?
So the peasants endure frigid winters by picking up twigs, branches and deadfalls, while the King lives in warmth and splendor.
At some point, idiocy comes to a screeching halt, you know. And I would love to put these screeching hippies into a so-called natural environment, with no way to warm themselves in the winter except for solar heat. How long would they last?
“How long would they last?”
MAYBE three days to a week before they imploded. That and they’d blame Bush.
A real life San Francisco hippie once told me his father, who didn’t approve of his son’s lifestyle, anyway, the hippie’s father asked him if he know how to starve a hippie? The answer was, hide the food stamps under the soap.
Maybe the hippies could stay warm cloaked in all the bs they tend to spread about.
I see it as more like Cuomo and his corrupt minions WILL NOT allow ANY construction PERIOD until they and their political machines have received the amount of bribes (*OOPS* campaign donations) they want.
Agreed. But don’t you wonder how much the upstaters could get away with if they buried a pipeline into their area from Canada? Hmmm… now there’s an idea for a secessionist story: have it come in through Maine, send it southward along the Seaway, and who would know where it came from?
I did plenty of runs to and through NY during my days as an OTR Trucker and there’s Red State NY which is outside of Albany and NYC. It’s much like CA where the liberal loons are in LA, SF and Sacramento and make everyone else suffer.
Yep.
Did it in my area. Took peoples land to do it, too. The problem was that none of the gas was for our area, it was for the folks in the cities to the south. They also destroyed a whole bunch of wells because, you know, folks in the sticks don’t have city water.
Same thing for a proposed powerline. No power for us just the liberal enclaves to the south. Funny how the liberals love stuff like that including windmills on ridgelines, fields of solar panels etc only not in their backyard. Always build them somewhere else.
Who is surprised about the pipeline? New York won’t let people drill for the gas, what makes anyone think they would let a pipeline get built to transport it?
We have only one planet, and should take care of it. However, having said that…we also have the technology to do that AND produce energy for our needs. Once again, stupidity reigns. We could do both if innovation, rather than sheer greed, was encouraged.
I heat my home with natural gas. I also cook with it. Even in a very harsh winter, my house is insulated properly enough to keep the heat in during really bad weather, and I have dual-pane insulated windows. I can benefit from solar heat in the winter because my bay window in the living room faces the south and has nothing but sky to face, even when the sun is low in the sky. So I can literally not need the furnace during the day, and keep it around 70F at night and am perfectly warm.
I had a new, more efficient blower motor installed in the furnace last fall and I’ll get a new, more efficient stove next fall. I want efficiency because it saves money over the long run.
The amount of CO2, etc., that my house and others around me produce from natural gas use is so low, you can barely trace it.
I’m just amazed at the sheer stupidity of these people who object to using natural resources, when they themselves use them. They aren’t saving the planet. The planet can take quite good care of itself without them. But they howl over ‘whatever’ and then use exactly what they howl over.
I truly don’t get it. I hope someone can explain teh stoopid to me in a way that I can understand, some day.
PN is right: we have only one planet and we should exercise good stewardship for it, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use natural resources while we’re at it. We only need to be smarter about using them without damage.
In the 70’s, the environment movement was blossoming in California and it found great expression in Alaska. The environmental lobby tried desperately to stop construction of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. Alaskans’ hoping for all of that construction and trickle-down money carried signs and bumper stickers – “Let the bastards freeze in the dark” Seems appropriate.
The pipeline was built, the State of Alaska is sitting on a bank account over $50 billion dollars, and the only significant accident was the Exxon Valdez. That was a really bad accident but nothing like the horrible situation promised by the environmental lobby.
American is suffering partly because we are not extracting our resources and manufacturing stuff so there are no jobs in those economic sectors. Jobs in some other economic sectors have been exported overseas. We pay for stuff and the money goes to other countries where they buy goods and services from yet other foreign countries but, mostly, not from the US. Stuff flows here from overseas and money to pay for it flows out — but we don’t make stuff that we sell to them. We don’t create value and the money we spend compensates people outside the US, not inside.
I work in the IT business. There are !cities! of people in India doing jobs that could and should be done by people here. That are plenty of skilled people here but they want a US living wage, not an India living wage. Did anyone notice that people in India don’t pay taxes to the IRS?
How much stuff that we buy is manufactured in China or Indonesia? Our money flows from us to our retailers to distributors to overseas manufacturing companies and their employees and their sources of the raw materials.
Want the US economy to recover? Rebuild the US raw materials processing and manufacturing capacity – like the auto industry – and it will drive US jobs and wealth. Don’t want to fix that problem? Continue to send our money overseas, that will do it.
It is too late to “fix” the economy. All those years of shoving money “up the nose” sent the loose cash to South America, Afghanistan and the Saud. We financed the upgrade of the third world with our strange recreations.
Consider the Saud, who paid all of their kith and kin a living income…… then they bred and split their “shares” on larger families;diminishing their incomes on the oil monopoly pie.
Then their reserves became worth less, so they pumped more to keep up the wealth stream. Ha, the glut is killing them.
Then they sent their delinquents and dreamers, hoping to kill themselves for Glory; to kill and loot their neighbors.
Then the tankers quit coming, as the shipping costs fell on supply closer to home. The great drug supply cartels fell as the money became easy to trace with the digital information explosion.
The world is fooked, but we are winning.
Cuomo was reported to retort, “What’s the big problem? My homes(s) are nice a toastie all winter!
Meant, “Nice AND toastie!” Darn it.
I think it’s fucking hilarious. I was working in NY, doing a job that would result in the demolition of an older power plant.
Since I was away from home, I was in a decent hotel. Also staying there were a bunch of gents who were involved in the drilling industry. They’d stay there, drive into PA where the drilling site was located, then head back in the evening.
The upshot? They were slant drilling under the border into NY. And PA, not NY, was getting all the tax money from it.
I love it when people tell us stuff like that.
SEA, likely the company that extracts any product from such wells will have to pay royalties to New York landowners who will then pay taxes. Plus the production companies will have to pay taxes on product deemed by geologists to have come from formations beneath New York.
I’ve been researching the issue as my wife inherited some mineral interests in Oklahoma and an exploration company drilling a directional well a mile away had to get her signature and hundreds of others before proceeding. The legal complexities of slant drilling are enormous and it’s easy to see why oil companies spend so much on lawyers before they can drill the first foot.
I used to think decisions like this were based on logic, even “liberal” or “environmental” logic, and now I am not so sure. If you were to trace another pipeline, a money pipeline, it might lead back to the current producers.
After watching an entire sector of our budget, ostensibly for pushing more environmentally sound energy sources, be rapidly laundered through the bankruptcy process, I no longer believe ideology is driving the stupidity.
It’s all a money laundering exercise. Throw huge subsidies to the green companies and in return they make huge donations to the leftest politicians that gave it to them. In a nutshell that’s it.
I have no problem with renewable energy and think it’s a good thing to diversify our energy but I object to my tax money being shoveled to companies that just go bankrupt or people who become billionaires on my back hello Tesla
I live in the Catskills, right around where one of the pipelines would have come through. The only ones this would have befitted is the people in the city. For me it would have just ripped up more Forrest, farm and hunting lands that once are gone, are gone forever.
here in my county ( Aptly named Green and a very blue by politics) most people use Oil to heat. This year i think i went through just shy of 700 gal over a very cold winter with a 25 year old furnace. it was $1.32 per gal compared to 3.85 last year. I am more then willing to to pay cash money, hunt my meat and maybe give some of those Albany liberals a reason to move to California where they can hug all the trees, illegal immigrants and transgender people they want. I can’t get out, but maybe they can…