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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elroy who wrote (324600)2/4/2007 12:54:57 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1576551
 
"The best way to remove oil and politics is to completely deregulate the oil industry."

Dump environmental regulations? Are you nuts? Do you know how bad things were around refineries before the EPA?

I grew up in the middle of the largest petrochemical complex in the world. East Texas still refines a large chunk of the world's oil. Things are a lot better now that they can't release, flare off or dump into the rivers anything they don't want. There are fish in the rivers and you don't have to repaint every year or two because the acid rain eats the paint off the walls. Back in the early to mid-60s, if the humidity was high, the SO2 in the air, combining with the humidity to form sulfuric acid in concentrations high enough that it would eat pantyhose off of women who wore them. Respiratory diseases are down, as is whole classes of rare cancers.

Dumping environmental regulations is a bad idea.
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