Classic Stossel: Shutting Down Progress

America is blessed with abundant resources and cursed with boneheaded regulators.

Environmentalists collude with the EPA to block economic progress.

EPA bureaucrats thousands of miles away shut down a mine in Alaska to save fish two hundred miles downstream and fired hundreds of workers in the process.

Now, after a decade of delays, environmentalists have also shut down the Keystone SL pipeline.

A Classic Stossel from 2015.

[mattdillon]

The irony is totally lost on the guy that brags about creating "green jobs" making widmills and electric cars while at the same time bragging about shutting down copper mines! These people have no self awareness.

[kenyongray]

John is a master of the "Devil's advocate" method of interviewing. Using this, he gets people to talk and as you know, most people love to talk. I have been watching John since he was a local reporter more than 50 years ago in NYC on CBS. He is the same guy as he was back on. That is a good thing for people.

[mmatson]

"It is frustrating for me that someone that does not live here come here and dictate and tell us what we cannot do."
Perfectly said.

[Zetact_]

Stossel: "You guys are destroying jobs."
Environmentalist: "But we also added worthless jobs!"

[parme]

“We have enough oil in the United States”.

Ouch, that didn’t age well for her or the progressives. 👍🏼🇺🇸

[caleblauber]

I’m Native American from the Navajo Reservation. A number of my Navajo patients were counting on the Keystone pipeline to feed their families and keep them employed. One of my patients lost his job when Keystone was rejected & I saw him recently on the streets of Gallup NM intoxicated. What waste when there are lost jobs. Demented Biden & his minions are responsible for making my country weak & castrated of pride. Restart the Keystone. Let’s go Brandon!

[thatguy]

Alaskan here. The amount of other people who lecture to those of us who live there on what we can and can't do with our own land and resources is mind boggling.

[GoatRuss]

Environmentalists have done a good job of focusing the public's eye on the production and use of the energy itself and throwing a giant rug over the carbon footprint that those "green" options actually have. Producing solar panels uses greenhouse gases, often burns Coal in it's production, and the silicon used in them have lead and other metals mixed into them to increase conductivity and makes them expensive and hard to recycle. Wind turbines still need things like copper and gold like Strossel pointed out. Electric cars are powered by electricity that is still largely obtained by burning Coal and Natural Gas. Environmentalism has changed from science backed and proven logic and reasoning to propaganda campaigns and smoke-and-mirrors tactics.

[NisaNJames]

Also, I appreciated how you got the guy from the NRDC to admit that he wants to close down anything that makes a profit. Like making a profit is the problem. "If volcanoes were corporations that operated for profit..." Does he hear himself? Does profit hurt the environment? Of course not!!!! I was listening to a group form the heartland institute talk about how we don't use nuclear power because it's not a profitable source of energy, but wind turbines and solar power sure are and they don't seem to care about the terrible environmental effects they Yeah, a country can get carbon neutral by them, but it's a shell game because those things are being made using coal mines in third world countries. Do they care about that? Nope. The coal mines in the US are so much cleaner, but they don't really care about the environment. It's maddening!

[TravisBerthelot]

"Never underestimate the stupidity of a large group of stupid people", George Carlin

[johnnyjohnson]

John Stossel has always been a TRUTH seeker. We need more John Stossel-s!!

[joep.]

This is 7 years ago and look where we are today. These zealots are beyond reasoning with. I actually have tears in my eyes for the poor folks who have been steam rolled by these holier than thou sobs.

[charleneblack]

I'm from WV & grew up extremely poor because of environmental regulations. Around 80% were on government assistance. When Trump removed regulations, everyone had a job, ATVS, they fixed their shacks. The ONLY jobs in McDowell Co, WV are 2 grocery stores, 2 fast food restaurants, and a jail. Without the coal mines (which power our entire country) these people would be destitute, and it's currently on the downslope.

[Theioeio]

Those criticisms of the keystone pipeline, like "we have enough oil already", sure didn't age well.

[jaewokG]

"if volcanos were profitable, we would want to control them" Patrick Moore is right, these people hate human progress.

[paulrankin]

Watched a 3 minute ad on ear wax removal to support this great channel. I did not know undigested cotton buds are found in sea creatures. Yep, I watched the whole thing.

[careyfriesen]

Jane Kleeb is also the current chair of the NE Democrat Party and the founder of Bold Alliance. She’s way too green and always opposes good stuff like Stossel reported here. Thanks John for focusing on people, groups, and orgs that don’t have our country’s best interest at heart. They’re only after their own pocketbooks.

[pelagius-lazy-monk]

The awesome John Stossel and co., Thank you!

[DrewRycerz]

John honestly, followed you for so many years what would we do without you? You let us remember the meaning of sanity. I feel like there's a divide between common sense and everyone else.

[Tom-ichw]

stossel rocks I always loved his "give me a break" segments on 20/20 way back when hosted by Hugh downs