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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13892 Posts
June 08 2013 19:16 GMT
#5601
On June 09 2013 03:24 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
Show nested quote +
Transportation Woes Keep US Oil Prices High

... some observers point a finger at inefficiencies in the U.S. transportation system, which forces oil companies to rely heavily on heavy transport to move crude supplies. Crude pipelines – such as the hotly debated Keystone XL that's now mired in Washington politics – could transport fuel more rapidly and at lower cost, some argue.

Better methods of transportation are needed "to move the commodities from where they are to where they aren't," said Joe Petrowski, Gulf Oil's CEO, in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this week. ...

"We're still relying too much on rail to move crude," the CEO said. "For example, we're moving crude 2,600 miles from the Bakken [in North Dakota] to the Canadian refinery in St. John's where we buy a lot of our product," he said. "It's just a much more expensive movement than if we were to move by water or by pipe."

Link

Why don't we just let companies build more rail and pipelines? Just make sure everything is safe, has modern pollution controls and then give the go ahead. More taxes, well paid blue collar jobs and lower prices. From an economic standpoint it's a good deal all around.

pipelines are easy targets for environmentalists and no one wants a rail line built next to their house killing their house's value?
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
JonnyBNoHo
Profile Joined July 2011
United States6277 Posts
June 08 2013 19:21 GMT
#5602
On June 09 2013 04:12 aksfjh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2013 03:24 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
Transportation Woes Keep US Oil Prices High

... some observers point a finger at inefficiencies in the U.S. transportation system, which forces oil companies to rely heavily on heavy transport to move crude supplies. Crude pipelines – such as the hotly debated Keystone XL that's now mired in Washington politics – could transport fuel more rapidly and at lower cost, some argue.

Better methods of transportation are needed "to move the commodities from where they are to where they aren't," said Joe Petrowski, Gulf Oil's CEO, in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this week. ...

"We're still relying too much on rail to move crude," the CEO said. "For example, we're moving crude 2,600 miles from the Bakken [in North Dakota] to the Canadian refinery in St. John's where we buy a lot of our product," he said. "It's just a much more expensive movement than if we were to move by water or by pipe."

Link

Why don't we just let companies build more rail and pipelines? Just make sure everything is safe, has modern pollution controls and then give the go ahead. More taxes, well paid blue collar jobs and lower prices. From an economic standpoint it's a good deal all around.

It's a large investment in what is a very rapidly developing sector/region, so there needs to be caution in that regard. We should probably avoid a strong oil-boom economy, but there does need to be some updating of pipeline networks.

I personally have conflicting worries in a microeconomic sense. These huge fields we're finding are generally in areas of the U.S. we need development in, like the Dakotas. As long as the oil can't move far without costs skyrocketing, the workers, businesses, and cities will benefit quite a bit from decreased cost of living/business, good pay, and reinvestment of infrastructure in the area. If you ship the oil away at cheaper costs to higher paying areas, you won't get the drastic local rewards that the region needs. There is the benefit of greatly reducing the need for drilling in populated areas (like NY, Appalachians, and North Texas), so there's that as well. I'm fairly certain the building of pipelines to decrease the cost of transportation would boost the economy as a whole right now, but the minor benefit to many might not balance out the huge benefit of the few.

I would think the opposite - if the oil can't move out cheaply the local area that produces it will lose out on increased production. They're already producing more oil and gas than they need locally and the oil needs to be shipped out, refined and sent back before it can be used locally.
aksfjh
Profile Joined November 2010
United States4853 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-08 19:28:14
June 08 2013 19:26 GMT
#5603
On June 09 2013 04:21 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2013 04:12 aksfjh wrote:
On June 09 2013 03:24 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
Transportation Woes Keep US Oil Prices High

... some observers point a finger at inefficiencies in the U.S. transportation system, which forces oil companies to rely heavily on heavy transport to move crude supplies. Crude pipelines – such as the hotly debated Keystone XL that's now mired in Washington politics – could transport fuel more rapidly and at lower cost, some argue.

Better methods of transportation are needed "to move the commodities from where they are to where they aren't," said Joe Petrowski, Gulf Oil's CEO, in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this week. ...

"We're still relying too much on rail to move crude," the CEO said. "For example, we're moving crude 2,600 miles from the Bakken [in North Dakota] to the Canadian refinery in St. John's where we buy a lot of our product," he said. "It's just a much more expensive movement than if we were to move by water or by pipe."

Link

Why don't we just let companies build more rail and pipelines? Just make sure everything is safe, has modern pollution controls and then give the go ahead. More taxes, well paid blue collar jobs and lower prices. From an economic standpoint it's a good deal all around.

It's a large investment in what is a very rapidly developing sector/region, so there needs to be caution in that regard. We should probably avoid a strong oil-boom economy, but there does need to be some updating of pipeline networks.

I personally have conflicting worries in a microeconomic sense. These huge fields we're finding are generally in areas of the U.S. we need development in, like the Dakotas. As long as the oil can't move far without costs skyrocketing, the workers, businesses, and cities will benefit quite a bit from decreased cost of living/business, good pay, and reinvestment of infrastructure in the area. If you ship the oil away at cheaper costs to higher paying areas, you won't get the drastic local rewards that the region needs. There is the benefit of greatly reducing the need for drilling in populated areas (like NY, Appalachians, and North Texas), so there's that as well. I'm fairly certain the building of pipelines to decrease the cost of transportation would boost the economy as a whole right now, but the minor benefit to many might not balance out the huge benefit of the few.

I would think the opposite - if the oil can't move out cheaply the local area that produces it will lose out on increased production. They're already producing more oil and gas than they need locally and the oil needs to be shipped out, refined and sent back before it can be used locally.

The pipeline would just send oil out then, since they are built to go one way (for the most part). The rest is what I'm talking about with local investment though. Eventually, they'll refine more in the area as well which offers more jobs etc. Like I said, there's a trade-off involved that is tricky to me.

Edit: There are refineries available in the area already, albeit low capacity.
ziggurat
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada847 Posts
June 08 2013 19:47 GMT
#5604
On June 08 2013 06:56 kwizach wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2013 05:55 Danglars wrote:
Rand Paul as usual. I wonder how many people would have voted for Obama knowing he would continue Bush-era secret surveillance techniques and Guantanamo Bay?

You do know that he can't close Guantanamo Bay without the votes in Congress, right?

Is this actually true? Isn't this an executive decision? Why would he need votes in congress?
JonnyBNoHo
Profile Joined July 2011
United States6277 Posts
June 08 2013 19:48 GMT
#5605
On June 09 2013 04:26 aksfjh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2013 04:21 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
On June 09 2013 04:12 aksfjh wrote:
On June 09 2013 03:24 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
Transportation Woes Keep US Oil Prices High

... some observers point a finger at inefficiencies in the U.S. transportation system, which forces oil companies to rely heavily on heavy transport to move crude supplies. Crude pipelines – such as the hotly debated Keystone XL that's now mired in Washington politics – could transport fuel more rapidly and at lower cost, some argue.

Better methods of transportation are needed "to move the commodities from where they are to where they aren't," said Joe Petrowski, Gulf Oil's CEO, in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this week. ...

"We're still relying too much on rail to move crude," the CEO said. "For example, we're moving crude 2,600 miles from the Bakken [in North Dakota] to the Canadian refinery in St. John's where we buy a lot of our product," he said. "It's just a much more expensive movement than if we were to move by water or by pipe."

Link

Why don't we just let companies build more rail and pipelines? Just make sure everything is safe, has modern pollution controls and then give the go ahead. More taxes, well paid blue collar jobs and lower prices. From an economic standpoint it's a good deal all around.

It's a large investment in what is a very rapidly developing sector/region, so there needs to be caution in that regard. We should probably avoid a strong oil-boom economy, but there does need to be some updating of pipeline networks.

I personally have conflicting worries in a microeconomic sense. These huge fields we're finding are generally in areas of the U.S. we need development in, like the Dakotas. As long as the oil can't move far without costs skyrocketing, the workers, businesses, and cities will benefit quite a bit from decreased cost of living/business, good pay, and reinvestment of infrastructure in the area. If you ship the oil away at cheaper costs to higher paying areas, you won't get the drastic local rewards that the region needs. There is the benefit of greatly reducing the need for drilling in populated areas (like NY, Appalachians, and North Texas), so there's that as well. I'm fairly certain the building of pipelines to decrease the cost of transportation would boost the economy as a whole right now, but the minor benefit to many might not balance out the huge benefit of the few.

I would think the opposite - if the oil can't move out cheaply the local area that produces it will lose out on increased production. They're already producing more oil and gas than they need locally and the oil needs to be shipped out, refined and sent back before it can be used locally.

The pipeline would just send oil out then, since they are built to go one way (for the most part). The rest is what I'm talking about with local investment though. Eventually, they'll refine more in the area as well which offers more jobs etc. Like I said, there's a trade-off involved that is tricky to me.

Edit: There are refineries available in the area already, albeit low capacity.

I don't see how there's a local trade off. If you could make more money keeping the oil local you'd do that. No one's going to build large refineries locally because you can't ship things out easily...
ziggurat
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada847 Posts
June 08 2013 19:54 GMT
#5606
On June 08 2013 07:03 Souma wrote:
Not a single thing you mentioned has hindered my freedom. Maybe someone else's, but not mine.

So, yeah, I feel safe and free.

+ Show Spoiler +
Whether I agree with TSA policies and whatnot is a different story though.

I will never understand how liberals can have such faith in big government. The problem with all these scandals is that they won't go away when Obama leaves power. Obama could be the most trustworthy, honourable guy on earth, and maybe he won't use any of these powers improperly. But what about the next president? What about the one after that? How can you have such faith in all future governments?
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13892 Posts
June 08 2013 20:02 GMT
#5607
On June 09 2013 04:47 ziggurat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2013 06:56 kwizach wrote:
On June 08 2013 05:55 Danglars wrote:
Rand Paul as usual. I wonder how many people would have voted for Obama knowing he would continue Bush-era secret surveillance techniques and Guantanamo Bay?

You do know that he can't close Guantanamo Bay without the votes in Congress, right?

Is this actually true? Isn't this an executive decision? Why would he need votes in congress?

Because congress needs to sign off before Obama spends money buliding a new super max in illinois and then shipping the prisoners to there. Congress doesn't see the need to spend all that money to not change anything about the situation at all. Is spending all that money worth just replacing gitmo with another gitmo?
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Souma
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
June 08 2013 20:25 GMT
#5608
On June 09 2013 04:54 ziggurat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2013 07:03 Souma wrote:
Not a single thing you mentioned has hindered my freedom. Maybe someone else's, but not mine.

So, yeah, I feel safe and free.

+ Show Spoiler +
Whether I agree with TSA policies and whatnot is a different story though.

I will never understand how liberals can have such faith in big government. The problem with all these scandals is that they won't go away when Obama leaves power. Obama could be the most trustworthy, honourable guy on earth, and maybe he won't use any of these powers improperly. But what about the next president? What about the one after that? How can you have such faith in all future governments?


Because we live in this thing called a democracy/republic and can vote, can protest, etc. and have no unrealistic fears of the government using military power to oppress the entire populace in some kind of brutal way? It's not like everyone has to worry about the CIA sending a swat team into their house just because they're having impure thoughts or something.

I have no doubt that there will be idiots in every administration that cross the line, but just because they do does not mean it's the end of our freedoms, and as long as the population isn't entirely apathetic then such blunders will be kept at a level that can be dealt with. The government will never be perfect, but they don't need to be. They never have been, and that's fine.
Writer
coverpunch
Profile Joined December 2011
United States2093 Posts
June 08 2013 23:55 GMT
#5609
On June 09 2013 04:54 ziggurat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2013 07:03 Souma wrote:
Not a single thing you mentioned has hindered my freedom. Maybe someone else's, but not mine.

So, yeah, I feel safe and free.

+ Show Spoiler +
Whether I agree with TSA policies and whatnot is a different story though.

I will never understand how liberals can have such faith in big government. The problem with all these scandals is that they won't go away when Obama leaves power. Obama could be the most trustworthy, honourable guy on earth, and maybe he won't use any of these powers improperly. But what about the next president? What about the one after that? How can you have such faith in all future governments?

Now that's not true. Liberals had plenty of skepticism about big government when Bush was president. Remember the whole "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" thing?
JonnyBNoHo
Profile Joined July 2011
United States6277 Posts
June 09 2013 00:10 GMT
#5610
On June 09 2013 04:16 Sermokala wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2013 03:24 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
Transportation Woes Keep US Oil Prices High

... some observers point a finger at inefficiencies in the U.S. transportation system, which forces oil companies to rely heavily on heavy transport to move crude supplies. Crude pipelines – such as the hotly debated Keystone XL that's now mired in Washington politics – could transport fuel more rapidly and at lower cost, some argue.

Better methods of transportation are needed "to move the commodities from where they are to where they aren't," said Joe Petrowski, Gulf Oil's CEO, in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" this week. ...

"We're still relying too much on rail to move crude," the CEO said. "For example, we're moving crude 2,600 miles from the Bakken [in North Dakota] to the Canadian refinery in St. John's where we buy a lot of our product," he said. "It's just a much more expensive movement than if we were to move by water or by pipe."

Link

Why don't we just let companies build more rail and pipelines? Just make sure everything is safe, has modern pollution controls and then give the go ahead. More taxes, well paid blue collar jobs and lower prices. From an economic standpoint it's a good deal all around.

pipelines are easy targets for environmentalists and no one wants a rail line built next to their house killing their house's value?

Good point. That needs to be addressed as well
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13892 Posts
June 09 2013 00:22 GMT
#5611
On June 09 2013 08:55 coverpunch wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2013 04:54 ziggurat wrote:
On June 08 2013 07:03 Souma wrote:
Not a single thing you mentioned has hindered my freedom. Maybe someone else's, but not mine.

So, yeah, I feel safe and free.

+ Show Spoiler +
Whether I agree with TSA policies and whatnot is a different story though.

I will never understand how liberals can have such faith in big government. The problem with all these scandals is that they won't go away when Obama leaves power. Obama could be the most trustworthy, honourable guy on earth, and maybe he won't use any of these powers improperly. But what about the next president? What about the one after that? How can you have such faith in all future governments?

Now that's not true. Liberals had plenty of skepticism about big government when Bush was president. Remember the whole "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" thing?

To be fair they were dissenting about the war that bush started and the policies that the other side were advancing in congress. You can't attribute everything to it being anti government.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Shiori
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
3815 Posts
June 09 2013 00:46 GMT
#5612
On June 09 2013 08:55 coverpunch wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2013 04:54 ziggurat wrote:
On June 08 2013 07:03 Souma wrote:
Not a single thing you mentioned has hindered my freedom. Maybe someone else's, but not mine.

So, yeah, I feel safe and free.

+ Show Spoiler +
Whether I agree with TSA policies and whatnot is a different story though.

I will never understand how liberals can have such faith in big government. The problem with all these scandals is that they won't go away when Obama leaves power. Obama could be the most trustworthy, honourable guy on earth, and maybe he won't use any of these powers improperly. But what about the next president? What about the one after that? How can you have such faith in all future governments?

Now that's not true. Liberals had plenty of skepticism about big government when Bush was president. Remember the whole "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" thing?

Pretty sure being anti-war doesn't mean one is anti-big government in the same way that being libertarian does.
ziggurat
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada847 Posts
June 09 2013 01:04 GMT
#5613
On June 09 2013 05:25 Souma wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2013 04:54 ziggurat wrote:
On June 08 2013 07:03 Souma wrote:
Not a single thing you mentioned has hindered my freedom. Maybe someone else's, but not mine.

So, yeah, I feel safe and free.

+ Show Spoiler +
Whether I agree with TSA policies and whatnot is a different story though.

I will never understand how liberals can have such faith in big government. The problem with all these scandals is that they won't go away when Obama leaves power. Obama could be the most trustworthy, honourable guy on earth, and maybe he won't use any of these powers improperly. But what about the next president? What about the one after that? How can you have such faith in all future governments?


Because we live in this thing called a democracy/republic and can vote, can protest, etc. and have no unrealistic fears of the government using military power to oppress the entire populace in some kind of brutal way? It's not like everyone has to worry about the CIA sending a swat team into their house just because they're having impure thoughts or something.

I have no doubt that there will be idiots in every administration that cross the line, but just because they do does not mean it's the end of our freedoms, and as long as the population isn't entirely apathetic then such blunders will be kept at a level that can be dealt with. The government will never be perfect, but they don't need to be. They never have been, and that's fine.

Remember the old slogan about those who forget history? That's you my friend.
Souma
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
June 09 2013 01:09 GMT
#5614
On June 09 2013 10:04 ziggurat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2013 05:25 Souma wrote:
On June 09 2013 04:54 ziggurat wrote:
On June 08 2013 07:03 Souma wrote:
Not a single thing you mentioned has hindered my freedom. Maybe someone else's, but not mine.

So, yeah, I feel safe and free.

+ Show Spoiler +
Whether I agree with TSA policies and whatnot is a different story though.

I will never understand how liberals can have such faith in big government. The problem with all these scandals is that they won't go away when Obama leaves power. Obama could be the most trustworthy, honourable guy on earth, and maybe he won't use any of these powers improperly. But what about the next president? What about the one after that? How can you have such faith in all future governments?


Because we live in this thing called a democracy/republic and can vote, can protest, etc. and have no unrealistic fears of the government using military power to oppress the entire populace in some kind of brutal way? It's not like everyone has to worry about the CIA sending a swat team into their house just because they're having impure thoughts or something.

I have no doubt that there will be idiots in every administration that cross the line, but just because they do does not mean it's the end of our freedoms, and as long as the population isn't entirely apathetic then such blunders will be kept at a level that can be dealt with. The government will never be perfect, but they don't need to be. They never have been, and that's fine.

Remember the old slogan about those who forget history? That's you my friend.


Sorry, did something happen in history that has forced me to live in chains right now?
Writer
JonnyBNoHo
Profile Joined July 2011
United States6277 Posts
June 09 2013 01:56 GMT
#5615
Welcome Home, 'Made in U.S.A.' on the Rise

Mitch Cahn is the owner and founder of Unionwear, an apparel and accessories maker—all exclusively made in the U.S. Despite years of panicked manufacturing headlines—Japan is making everything! No, It's China!—Cahn has kept his business open for 21 years and counting, all on American soil.

The company's first core customers were unions that wanted to support union wages and "Made in USA" goods. Then more recently, a new crop of customers began ringing Unionwear headquarters in Newark, N.J.

East Coast fashion designers—including those in NYC's garment district—were shopping for U.S.-based contract manufacturers. With labor costs in China rising and that country's own economy accelerating, small U.S. shop owners couldn't get the attention of overseas manufacturers. In an ironic twist, they couldn't afford a "Made in China" strategy....

And small shop manufacturers aren't just dusting off shuttered businesses, locked up after jobs moved to countries such as Japan in the 1970s. Young entrepreneurs are innovating from scratch, creating new online communities such as Maker's Row—and even turning to emerging platforms such as crowdfunding—to bankroll U.S. manufacturing operations. ...

Earlier this year, Walmart announced it will boost sourcing of U.S. products. And more American and Chinese consumers are willing to pay a 10 percent to 60 percent premium for "Made in USA" goods, according to BCG research released last fall.

Meanwhile, a shift in manufacturing away from China will begin to take hold around 2015, according to BCG forecasts. Rising labor prices there will create a ripple effect.

Certain industries—in which labor is a lower percentage of total product costs—are more likely to pack up overseas for North America, including Mexico, where labor costs are stable. Product categories likely to reshore first include appliances and electronics, transportation, machinery, plastics, furniture and chemicals, BCG's Sirkin said. ...

Emphasis mine (as usual). On a political note, I'm disappointed that the JOBS Act is still held up in regulatory purgatory. Getting that finalized would help on the crowdfunding front.

Full CNBC story here.
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
June 09 2013 03:23 GMT
#5616
This week’s revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities have prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to revisit its options related to a hard-fought, high-profile legal case it lost earlier this year.

The ACLU’s lawsuit, known as Amnesty et al. v. Clapper, was an attempt to challenge a 2008 law called the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), which broadened the power of the NSA to monitor Americans’ international phone calls and emails. The ACLU brought the lawsuit on behalf of a number of attorneys, human rights, labor, legal, and media organizations whose work involved sensitive and sometimes privileged telephone and e-mail communications with people located outside the United States.

The ACLU filed the suit almost immediately after President George W. Bush signed the FISA Amendments Act in to law in July 2008. The following summer, a district court judge in New York dismissed the suit on “standing” grounds, because the ACLU’s clients could not prove that their communications would be monitored under the new law. A federal appeals court reversed that ruling in 2011, and the Obama administration appealed the issue to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ultimately dismissed the ACLU’s lawsuit in a 5-4 decision in February 2013, holding that the plaintiffs did not have the right to challenge the law.

The NSA’s practice of collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers was revealed by The Guardian on Wednesday. Then, on Thursday, The Washington Post reported that the NSA and the FBI are tapping into the central servers of nine major U.S. internet companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google.

“The recent disclosures raise serious questions about the government’s representation to the Supreme Court about the speculative nature of dragnet surveillance,” Brett Max Kaufman, a national security fellow with the ACLU’s National Security Project, told TPM. “And the ACLU is considering and researching the available options in terms of further action on the FAA. Throughout the Amnesty litigation, the ACLU consistently argued that a broad interpretation of the FAA would permit the government to conduct the very kind of surveillance that has been disclosed in the past few days, and the government was dismissive of the possibility.”

According to Kaufman, this week’s news demonstrates “how important legal issues like standing are, because they take away the ability of the American people to challenge the very kind of surveillance that we’ve learned about.”

Mark Rumold, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggested that the ACLU and its plaintiffs still had a tough fight when it came to standing.


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JonnyBNoHo
Profile Joined July 2011
United States6277 Posts
June 09 2013 04:09 GMT
#5617
*snicker* (source)

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aksfjh
Profile Joined November 2010
United States4853 Posts
June 09 2013 04:16 GMT
#5618
On June 09 2013 13:09 JonnyBNoHo wrote:
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God, you neocons are always taking things out of context!

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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
June 09 2013 04:36 GMT
#5619
A Vermont marijuana legalization is making a wave in the headlines today, as the LA Times reported this Friday, June 7, that the state governor Peter Shumlin officially signed a bill this week that has made Vermont the 17th state in the country to no longer consider possession of minor amounts of marijuana a serious crime.

The new Vermont marijuana law signed into effect will instead decriminalize the carrying of pot, as people found with 1 oz. or less of weed will now only be given financial penalties (not that much different than receiving a driving ticket). Before this, however, carrying marijuana in Vermont of up to just two ounces was a major misdemeanor offense that could lead one up to six months in jail to two years for repeated charges.


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"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
JonnyBNoHo
Profile Joined July 2011
United States6277 Posts
June 09 2013 04:54 GMT
#5620
On June 09 2013 13:36 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
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A Vermont marijuana legalization is making a wave in the headlines today, as the LA Times reported this Friday, June 7, that the state governor Peter Shumlin officially signed a bill this week that has made Vermont the 17th state in the country to no longer consider possession of minor amounts of marijuana a serious crime.

The new Vermont marijuana law signed into effect will instead decriminalize the carrying of pot, as people found with 1 oz. or less of weed will now only be given financial penalties (not that much different than receiving a driving ticket). Before this, however, carrying marijuana in Vermont of up to just two ounces was a major misdemeanor offense that could lead one up to six months in jail to two years for repeated charges.


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I've lived in New England almost my entire life. The only things I really know about Vermont are that it's north of me and they make great cheese. Now I know a third thing, thank you StealthBlue.
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