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What a billion dollars get you

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by AleksandarN, Dec 11, 2024.

  1. AleksandarN

    AleksandarN Member

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    I mean this can’t be real can it? Lol this is a **** you to the environment and any small and medium business that can’t afford a billion dollars. Let’s make Billionaires and big business great again. What a stupid and corrupt idea.

    P.S. Of course Elon likes it. He probably suggested it to his best friend

     
  2. Space Ghost

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    Question: Do you believe in a free market system where all participants get equal opportunity and treatment -or- do you believe in a system where the wealthy get preferred access AND/OR bureaucrats hamstringing progress to force participants into compliance of their ideology.

    Because right now you're only complaining about one of the two problems.
     
  3. tallanvor

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    It says investing a billion dollars. Who do you believe benefits from money being invested?
     
  4. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    This isn’t anything new.
     
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    related

    Supreme Court seems likely to narrow environmental reviews for projects
    An 88-mile rail line in Utah has become a proxy battle over federal authority.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/10/supreme-court-environmental-review-utah/

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    The Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to somewhat narrow the scope of environmental reviews required for major infrastructure projects nationwide as it weighed the construction of a Utah rail line that would carry billions of gallons of oil.

    The justices heard oral arguments over the controversial stretch of track that would connect the remote Uinta Basin in northeastern Utah to national rail lines, allowing more waxy crude from one of the nation’s largest oil fields to be transported to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

    On its surface, the case is about the 88-mile rail line, but it has also become a proxy battle over how far federal agencies should go in assessing the environmental impact of highways, pipelines and other projects before deciding whether to approve them.

    Seven counties in the basin, a Native American tribe and oil interests say the project would boost the local economy, which has been hampered by mountainous terrain and a lack of transport into the sprawling, Maryland-sized basin.

    Paul Clement, an attorney for the groups, urged the justices to adopt a narrow reading of what impacts agencies must consider under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the landmark law that has set the standard for environmental reviews for half a century.

    He said an agency should only have to consider effects close in time and proximity to a project and those that fall within its regulatory purview. He pointed out that the federal review of the rail line project was 3,600 pages and called for 91 mitigating measures.

    “It is designed to inform government decision-making, not paralyze it,” Clement said of NEPA. “Nonetheless, it has become the single most litigated environmental statute.”

    But five environmental groups and the county that is home to Vail, Colorado, argue that NEPA calls for a more holistic review, saying the rail project could have devastating impacts on local habitats, could lead to oil spills in the Colorado River and would quintuple oil production, worsening climate change and pollution near refineries in the South.
    more at the link

     
  6. fchowd0311

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    The type of people who are looking for opportunities and are failing because of regulations aren't the people in America struggling

    Its the ones struggling to pay rent. Those aren't the ones a deregulation away from financial security in life.

    Who are these class of humans who are not reaching their full potential because of regulations?
     
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  7. Rocket River

    Rocket River Member

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    If you have a billion dollars. . . it easier to get the next billion
    Most people can be bought
    Even those who say they cannot . . . .

    Rocket River
    If the price/cost gets high enough . . . . .
     
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  8. Rocket River

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    Deregulation means . .. I want to dump my cooking oil into the streets, streams where ever
    I wanna work people 90 hour weeks . . I don't want to have to but safety guards in place
    I want to be able to feed them anything and call it anything
    I want to be able to lie cheat steal and not be held accountable

    Rocket River
     
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  9. Os Trigonum

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    that’s exactly what it means :rolleyes:
     

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