text: Everybody benefits from economic activity and value creation.  Everybody loses when loudmouted ignoramuses step in and shut it down.  We have engineers that can design for things like earthquakes and crashing 747s.  Unfortunately, we can't engineer against every contemplated disaster that any chicken-little can imagine, or those extremists that will use imminent catastrophe as a pretext to their agenda.
  
  Where were you when the natural gas pipeline was brought in to Coos Bay ten years ago?  Hunkering down for that imminent catastrophe?