re: #198 Indy GOP Refugee

Why am I open minded on the pipe? Not over the GOP. Not because I’m a big believer in the jobs proposed.

Because nobody has convinced me that the likely alternatives are any better for the environment. The unlikely alternatives are unpersuasive by definition. If the critics were not often those that also oppose nuclear power to a degree that prevent development of safer technologies, that oppose winds over bird strikes, solar farms over the alleged impact on the fauna or the unsightly nature of them. In other words against, against, and against, with no credible alternative to feed heat and move people.

The irony here: you’re defining yourself in opposition to people based on their positions on other issues. You also start off putting the burden of proof on those opposed to the project instead of the project backers, who have yet to meet EPA review. It also contains a huge straw man, you’re conflating opposition to Keystone with opposition to wind power because you want to, not because there’s any significant percentage of those opposed to the pipeline project obviously opposed to wind power. You’re just created this huge caricature of environmentalism, it’s not very interesting or accurate.