Comments on: Metrocide - America can’t afford it http://www.polimom.com/2006/01/28/metrocide-america-cant-afford-it/ I used to be in the middle, but they keep moving the line! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:42:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Steve http://www.polimom.com/2006/01/28/metrocide-america-cant-afford-it/#comment-711 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:50:00 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/01/28/metrocide-america-cant-afford-it/#comment-711 With the ammount of oil that is brought in via Louisianas refining facilities and pipelines, you'd think it would behoove the government to expedite all assistance that can be afforded to the Gulf, wouldnt you? They could almost hold the rest of the country hostage with them. I can recall two years ago reading a Louisiana Outdoors magazine in the N.O. airport after a hunting trip, and reading that for every 6 Billion dollars the Oil companies made offshore in louisiana, they only gave back to the state something like 1.2 million. I kept that article for the longest time, because I felt it showed how unfairly the oil industry treated La.As fate would have it, I threw it out last July. With the ammount of oil that is brought in via Louisianas refining facilities and pipelines, you’d think it would behoove the government to expedite all assistance that can be afforded to the Gulf, wouldnt you? They could almost hold the rest of the country hostage with them.

I can recall two years ago reading a Louisiana Outdoors magazine in the N.O. airport after a hunting trip, and reading that for every 6 Billion dollars the Oil companies made offshore in louisiana, they only gave back to the state something like 1.2 million. I kept that article for the longest time, because I felt it showed how unfairly the oil industry treated La.As fate would have it, I threw it out last July.

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