I'm trying to figure out what electricity has to do with oil from your statement.
You can also make a decision to reduce oil consumption where logical. This would be a good thing from a monetary and national defense standpoint among other things. On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Being against oil but using oil... > Think FedEx can do its thing without oil? > > If you are truly against oil, stop using it. > Go to the forest. No kerosene lamps, deer fat tallow candles perhaps. > No guns, takes oil to make guns... > > etc > > -----Original Message----- From: Josh Reynolds > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 8:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Jaime's thread > > 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 >> >> >
