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- From: kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: The hidden costs of Environmentalism : A case study
- Keywords: r-12, cars, big bucks
- Message-ID: <C1IzxM.K01@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:41:45 GMT
- References: <C1Hs2M.3DH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan27.061426.11591@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <27JAN199308181657@utkvx3.utk.edu>
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- drevik@utkvx3.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan27.061426.11591@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes...
- >>In article <C1Hs2M.3DH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
- >>
- >>> I am not against protecting the environment, but should we have to pay
- >>>this type of cost? Why didn't someone figure out a way to lower the cost
- >>>before they implemented the regulations?
- >>
- >>That's a job for the free market. Instead of complaining, invent a method that
- >>will do it for $10 and still stay within the regulations and you will become
- >>filthy rich.
-
- >Here, here! My company is doing VERY well in the midst (or tail end,
- >perhaps) of a deep recession. Our business is supplying products to
- >help power generating utilities comply with the new Clean Air Act.
- >My division has increased its staffing 300% over the past five years,
- >and my company can support average raises of 13%.
-
- Did you ever think that your companies prosperity may come at the expense
- of other companies, and that this may have led to a recession?
-
- >Government regulation has been around forever. You can either complain
- >about it, or you can make it work for you.
-
-
- Why are you so glib about excepting every regulation to come down the
- pipe? We need government, but not the blotted, all inclusive, federal type
- that we are currently struggling under.
-