You should have either capitalized Come-to-Jesus or used lower case 'come-to-jesus'. Either way the words should be hyphenated to indicate an accepted expression. Quotation marks would be optional.
A. Tax breaks for oil and gas companies are call depletion allowances, in recognition that eventually the resource will dry up and the mineral value will have diminished to zero. These tax breaks are not much different than depreciation, which EVERY to which business entity is entitled.
B. LNG tankers have already been in the Savannah shipping channel, just not recently. It is a highly coordinated program and the city and port are very capable of dealing with it.
C. What is it that over-the-top environmentalists have against job creation and all the benefits to the community that new jobs bring with them? Housing demand, tax collections, retail buying, and more. Have you looked around? This place is poor!
D. Have your leg checked by an orthopedist. All that knee jerking could do permanent damage to your ligaments.
Joellen, I cannot explain why you and your neighbors are just now becoming aware of this project. A plan of this magnitude has been under consideration, discussion, and environmentalist howling since Kinder Morgan bought El Paso Natural Gas, the previous owner of Southern LNG, about 2 years now. I understand your concerns, but regarding property values, if you have not already been adversely affected I cannot imagine why the conversion of this facility from import and storage to export will have any further impact. Furthermore, the closest point from your neighborhood to the entrance to Elba Island is 1.8 miles away. Although we all have doubts about something regarding our government, it is hard to imagine that a project like this could ever get through state and federal energy regulatory commissions if there was any measurable threat to the community.
Boy! You are full of doomsday assumptions Alex, and almost no facts. But worse, still, you will have to go though life not having a clue about how an economy works and what drives community prosperity. No town this size needs prosperity and new blood and new thinking more than Savannah. Look at Charleston's growth and I will rest my case.
The predictable and expected push-back by environmentalists to Kinder Morgan's plans represents only one thread-bare side of the story. The other side is this: 26% poverty rate, out-of-control crime, poor and failing public schools, no capital, no growth, no job skills, the loss of Volvo, VW, Boeing, Caterpillar and only SEDA knows what else.
We need all the new jobs, new people and new capital we can get. Monitor FERC, monitor Kinder Morgan, but welcome them to this too poor corner of Georgia. And for God's sake think long term, instead of like children refusing to eat what's good for them.
Jim
You just poked this county in the open, cankered wound of leadership; a problem which will not heal. I am still disgusted by the mayor's most recent wimpy 'five' point' plan to fight crime. Nothing but a retread - again. What promising leader on either city council or county commission is actually electable? Where is someone with vision, bold enough to learn from other communiys' mistakes and successes, and apply the good stuff here?
Just think where we would be with real leadership and a skilled workforce. We might have gotten Volvo, or Volkswagen before that, or even Boeing, or Mercedes. and how many others we didn't hear about. Then there would not be a 27% poverty rate in Savannah, then there would not be a lack of jobs. Crime would recede (a least a little), and schools would be better, and merchants would prosper, and on and on...
I almost sneered at the New York Times recent "36 Hours in..." slick video on Savannah.
We are DESPERATELY in need of new blood in this county.
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You should have either capitalized Come-to-Jesus or used lower case 'come-to-jesus'. Either way the words should be hyphenated to indicate an accepted expression. Quotation marks would be optional.
B. LNG tankers have already been in the Savannah shipping channel, just not recently. It is a highly coordinated program and the city and port are very capable of dealing with it.
C. What is it that over-the-top environmentalists have against job creation and all the benefits to the community that new jobs bring with them? Housing demand, tax collections, retail buying, and more. Have you looked around? This place is poor!
D. Have your leg checked by an orthopedist. All that knee jerking could do permanent damage to your ligaments.
We need all the new jobs, new people and new capital we can get. Monitor FERC, monitor Kinder Morgan, but welcome them to this too poor corner of Georgia. And for God's sake think long term, instead of like children refusing to eat what's good for them.
You just poked this county in the open, cankered wound of leadership; a problem which will not heal. I am still disgusted by the mayor's most recent wimpy 'five' point' plan to fight crime. Nothing but a retread - again. What promising leader on either city council or county commission is actually electable? Where is someone with vision, bold enough to learn from other communiys' mistakes and successes, and apply the good stuff here?
Just think where we would be with real leadership and a skilled workforce. We might have gotten Volvo, or Volkswagen before that, or even Boeing, or Mercedes. and how many others we didn't hear about. Then there would not be a 27% poverty rate in Savannah, then there would not be a lack of jobs. Crime would recede (a least a little), and schools would be better, and merchants would prosper, and on and on...
I almost sneered at the New York Times recent "36 Hours in..." slick video on Savannah.
We are DESPERATELY in need of new blood in this county.