To: TobagoJack who wrote (154907 ) 3/21/2020 3:40:19 AM From: sense Respond to of 217549 I tend to think that the time lines for any such strategery are far too long to be relevant within the proper frame of reference in disposing of the issues dominating current events. This has been done before, with energy wars and the shales... only last time the shales were still primarily a natural gas story, and a fuel alternative in substitution for oil... and for some reason, no one really seems to care about natural gas companies going broke... It's like different forms of energy have their unique fan bases... lovers and haters... except for nat gas... that has no fans, no real enemies... just no one cares... Rodney Dangerfield gets more respect. But, there was time a while back when every backyard in Colorado was going to make the property owners bazillionaires based on tight gas... and then a decade plus of every back yard in Colorado having a derelict drill rig rusting away... The issue isn't energy... and it isn't the risks apparent in the financing of projects... it is the ability of lawyers to suspend the operation of time... somehow, in a process I don't understand at all, subverting the functions of physics with legalisms... only all the more if that suits... "them"... ? It might make the docket in... oh, I don't know... let's hold a hearing on that issue alone... in 2023... I think that started with innovation in Texas... formerly of oil producing fame... as the industry decline began there... but my only evidence for that is in the Texas Attorney's Oath... ATTORNEY’S OATH I, _______________________________________________________ do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitutions of the United States, and of this state; that I will honestly demean myself in the practice of law... Having dealt with my share of attorneys in Texas, I always suspected as much... but I never knew they were actually obligated to make it a promise...