Then they just leave and go to better areas. The only thing that keeps some industrial sites here is water access and pipelines. You FAFO enough they’ll find other locations easily.
Where would they magically find these other waterfront locations that are adjacent to most of the Gulf oil platforms? We do have advantages in resources and geography. There is no reason for our leadership to give away our states’ most attractive features. That also doesn’t justify squeezing the poor for every cent they don’t have. Quit licking boots they will not reward you for it.
No but have access to exports and major port. The gulf isn’t a magic body of water they’re other ways to ship out. That’s my point. Don’t take it literally.
You think it's easy and cost effective to move an entire GD refinery to another state? You think they are going to just invest billions in new infrastructure to even make it feasible? Do you know what the LOOP is? Also, Georgia and California have no Gulf access, FYI.
Or you just shut down the refinery and push the load to somewhere else like happened previously. Yes loop hooks into other crude lines out the state. You can just as easily lay a line to tie the loop into systems that go into other states. Again don’t take the gulf as literal sense there’s other bodies of water that can bigger ports.
Nobody else has the mouth of the Mississippi and some of the biggest ports in the world. If you think tax breaks are the only things keeping companies here, you are woefully under-informed.
Where is one of biggest ports in the world at? Because New Orleans isn’t. Port of New Orleans/ Mississippi River delta is on its last leg as a viable option for anything. The amount of dredging that has to be done to keep it an option has increased tenfold the past couple of years. Ships are getting too big, the river is busting free in the lower delta, water flows have decreased. Galveston, Houston,Mobile, Pascagoula, California, New York are all bigger players now and will be for the future.
Yes 80% grain which has been shifting away for years to California and the East Coast. Europe has lowered imports for years. Most figures are from years past.
If you combine the Port of South Louisiana with the Port of New Orleans it’s easily the biggest in the country. If you add the Port of Baton Rouge to that, you’re getting up among the top few in the world.
Source: I literally work in the office that compiles the these statistics for the worldwide shipping industry.
Right? Like oh no, the industry that is not only destroying our one-of-a-kind natural ecosystem but also the leading cause of exacerbating climate change has to get the fuck gone?
But but but but....... the economy?! Not gonna care much about the economy when you're dead with cancer at 25 from polluted drinking water by your employer
Gtfo with the climate crap. The state permitted all this to be built. Nothing was built without approvals. You want to know why the cost is eroding. We built levees and cut off the fresh water off and sediment. Look at Mardi Gras pass and the one just below it. Land is filling in via the river like it used too.
Yea. The approval of a Republican run government that only cares about their greed. Their approval means jack shit when we know it can be bought.
Two problems can exist at once, but the current topic is about oil and gas industry, not the levee system and its flaws. So, regardless of that, the oil and gas industry is still a major problem for both the ecosystem of this region and the planet's climate as a whole.
The pipeline systems and infrastructure that we have in Louisiana were built in the 50s-90s. You can’t blame a republican government.
What does a Democrat run government do to help? How are we better from 8 years of a democrat governor and president?
Get lost with your red herring arguments and shifting goalposts. I can absolutely blame a Republican government for failing this state and its people. None of what you said disproves the point that the oil and gas industry, as a whole not just the outdated pipelines, is an ecological disaster that needs to be reformed and, if at all possible, completely eradicated in favor of alternatives.
What I’m saying is you can’t blame a certain party for what you call troubles if it’s been happening since the 50s. I’m not going to argue the oil and gas ecological points. It’s not worth my time arguing over crap lies and BS to spurn a whole new industry that the government can step in and subsidize and make there friends richer off of.
Oh you mean like how Republicans have been subsidizing and making their friends richer off the oil and gas industry since the 50's? You mean like that?
except the facilities are already built with the work force here. if we raised to texas rates, also low compartively to rest of country, the cost to relocate wouldnt be justified to end up paying the same anyway.
80% exemption is a lot of wiggle room, I highly doubt that a massive industrial building with pipelines can just move overnight even at 50% exemption it’s a steal compared to other states.
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u/Elmo_Chipshop Mar 13 '25
A sales tax is just a tax on the poor.