[BfloGuy]

If true, we’d be better off without the pipeline.

Yes. Say it again.

If true, we’d be better off without the pipeline.

The lack of a pipeline can be overcome -- inefficently, to be sure -- but doable.

A carbon tax will just further hollow out the American manufacturing sector.

[cripplecreek]

Ben Franklin told the British that the colonists would rather sacrifice than comply 10 years before the revolution.

Q. What used to be the pride of the Americans ?

A. To indulge in the fashions and manufactures of G. Britain.

Q. What is now their pride ?

A. To wear their old cloaths over again, till they can make new ones.

The Examination of Doctor Franklin, before an August Assembly, relating to the Repeal of the Stamp-Act, &c.