And a McMansion on every acre...
Anti-Sprawl Laws, Property Rights Collide in Oregon (washingtonpost.com):
"If you are going to restrict what someone can do with his land, then you have to pay for it," said Dale Riddle, vice president for legal affairs at Seneca Jones Timber Co., an Oregon firm that was the largest donor to the campaign for Measure 37.
Thanks to Oregon's new law, anti-sprawl legislation has lost political momentum across the country, according to Harvey Jacobs, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin. "It has really excited the property-rights movement and suggests to its supporters that they can challenge smart-growth laws everywhere," he said.
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It may be grim to say so, but oil prices will eventually take care of this problem.
Yes, no doubt. Kunstler:
Speaking of math, I did the oil figures a couple of weeks ago, and it's worth repeating. Of the the 80 million barrels a day the world burns, we burn one quarter of that, or 20 million barrels a day. Every five days we burn a hundred million barrels. Every fifty days America burns one billion barrels of oil. Every year we burn seven billion barrels. The US has 28 billion barrels of oil left. If we burned every last drop of our own oil, and somehow lost access to foreign imports, our oil would last four more years.
Four more years of easy motoring, bargain shopping, RV vacations, and trading up to bigger houses farther out in the rural gloaming.
Amy,
i am writing on behlaf of Human Rights First. I see you linked to us in your torture resources and I would like your email to send you the latest info on our advocacy campaigns. If interested please email me at afield@mrss.com so I can have your address.
Thanks,
Amelia
www.EndTortureNow.org
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