[Magdalen] gas prices?

[James Oppenheimer]

What ever they are making, the basics are nothing short of making the most
profit possible. When they find something is suggested, they evaluate how
forcefully it is suggested, and add up anticipated costs of compliance,
versus the costs of hiring lawyers to tie the bureaucrats up in red tape
for years, while they keep recalculating the costs and benefits.

It is not a matter of harming others; it is a matter of the amount of money
that harm will cost them, with or without litigation. My death -- your
death -- has a money value. That's all it is to them.

If they ever become convinced that it is more profitable to comply than to
resist, they will comply.  So we need to make it happen that the costs are
so high that they will comply, or they will never change. Why should they,
if they're making out "like bandits" ? ? ?


James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Ronkainen
>
>  One of the problems with talking about carbon footprints and 'personal
>> use' of
>> pollutants is that we won't ever  compare to corporate polluters who can
>> but
>> often (regionally) don't do anything much to 'fix' their problems.    In
>>
>
> I tend to doubt that their business model is making pollution.The surely
> make
> something for which there is a market.Addressing that market would seem to
> be
> the answer.
>
> What do they produce?
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>