Would you mind clarifying the follow a bit? Thanks "Being against oil but using electricity and vehicles and FedEx."
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:32 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I like driving my gas and diesel vehicles. > I like the products derived from oil like the jacket on CAT 5 cable and > printed circuit boards. > I like the price of oil to be as low as possible. > I prefer having sources in this hemisphere and not funding the Arab world. > > I too have built many miles of copper and fiber over public and tribal > lands. I have gone through the exact same NEPA and FLPMA process as the > pipeline many many times. I consider myself a NEPA expert and am currently > advising the US Senate on ways to make that process work faster. > > Pissing and moaning that folks with more money than you are building a pipe > to make even more money than you sounds like sour grapes and jealousy. If > you are against the “commons” don’t use common frequencies. Don’t use ROWs. > Don’t use electricity. > > I don’t get several things: > > Being against oil but using electricity and vehicles and FedEx. > Being against certain forms of arguably safer and more efficient oil > transportation. > Being against certain rich people doing business but attempting to become a > richer person yourself. > Being against the use of public and private ROWs for oil pipelines but not > for water pipelines, natural gas pipelines, sewers, fiber cables or > electric. > > And being a second or third generation wanna-be 1960s social justice warrior > going thousands of miles to hang with other like minded people and think you > are really doing anything be being cold, being an ass, being stupid and > wasting your time and the resources of local, state and federal authorities. > Those folks are punks. (Their parents probably have BA in liberal arts). > > And yes, BTW, I too have made deals with tribes. It is as Lewis describes. > You make the deal, you pay the money and more often than not when tribal > leadership changes, the deal no longer exists and you have another round of > payola. I have native American heritage in my blood. Don’t get all butt > hurt when I say it is called “indian giving” for a reason. Tribes have > communal property. You never own anything, you just possess it for a time > until some other tribal member decides they need it. That spills over to > dealing with non tribal members. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giver > >
