06-18-2006, 09:29 PM
AGAINST.
If there were a demonstrably better proposal in the pipeline with at least a very good chance of being adopted as a resolution, I'd change my vote; however, if arms were legs, I'd be a quadruped. :trtl:
Oil spills are the classic example of externalising costs: business merely loses a capital asset and some raw materials -- expensive, true, but easier to replace than cleaning up the environmental mess it leaves behind. Double hulls at least make it a little harder to pollute, but with a little bubbly and the captain from the Exxon Valdez that shouldn't be a problem. :o
If there were a demonstrably better proposal in the pipeline with at least a very good chance of being adopted as a resolution, I'd change my vote; however, if arms were legs, I'd be a quadruped. :trtl:
Oil spills are the classic example of externalising costs: business merely loses a capital asset and some raw materials -- expensive, true, but easier to replace than cleaning up the environmental mess it leaves behind. Double hulls at least make it a little harder to pollute, but with a little bubbly and the captain from the Exxon Valdez that shouldn't be a problem. :o