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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: tom pope who wrote (107026)8/13/2008 10:30:34 AM
From: ChanceIs  Read Replies (4) of 206199
 
>>>I used to spill more gas into the harbor filling my boat every week than that thing ever leaked.<<<

Isn't that the truth.

I hope I didn't seem to deceitful in my previous post. I am all for keeping the environment reasonably healthy. This underground tank stuff is clearly in the lunatic realm. I saw on this thread that somebody paid $15K to get rid of a tank. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that that was 6-7% the price of the house.

Grandfathering would have been so much more sensible. Maybe require people to switch to NG and to pump their old tanks out and back fill - easier with pea gravel than concrete come to think of it. Nuts, nuts, nuts. The environmental remediation businesses no doubt got that through while we were all safely asleep in out beds.
There is a reason our economy is headed into a severe recession. Its called misallocation of resources. There is an economist up at MIT - Lester Thurlow (sp?) who makes the argument that nothing could be worse for the environment than to experience a lack of economic growth or even a reversal. I can't recall his exact reasoning, but I think that it went along the lines that these environmental protection costs were all very obvious add on to a basic process. If the economy got pinched, they are very easy and obvious things to cut or not operate or maintain. Exhaust scrubbers on electric generation plants or those catalytic converters in automobiles come to mind.
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