I don’t know if you’ve ever been to an industrial coast but I assure you, they will do a lot to protect themselves while not doing anything positive for the residents of Louisiana. Oil executives and energy traders in Houston will reap the benefits while Louisiana gets a handful of mostly blue collar jobs in exchange for oil spills, cancer, destruction of wetlands, and climate refugees from rising sea levels.
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