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> I see nothing wrong with drilling an oil well on your own land. Yet drilling an oil well is currently illegal on a lot of private land in the US. > Where we
by guscost 11y ago
> I see nothing wrong with drilling an oil well on your own land.
Yet drilling an oil well is currently illegal on a lot of private land in the US.
> Where we have a problem is when you start spreading that oil, or stuff derived from it, in my air and water.
Air and water pollution are regulated separately by another group. I don't have any problem with this kind of regulation unless it gets out of hand (classifying CO2 as pollution for example).
- mikeash 11y agoWhy is preventing you from putting CO2 into other people's air "out of hand," and not common sense property rights?
- guscost 11y agoBecause we do it every time we exhale. Criminalizing breathing (or any policy that could be interpreted as such in the future) is way beyond "out of hand", it's the lowest form of fascist garbage I've ever seen during my time in America.
- mikeash 11y agoCO2 regulations no more criminalize breathing than noise ordinances do. The quantities involved are vastly different.