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“By forcing us to change from gas to electric, we will have to sell our house. And if we sell our house, we’re gonna move out of state, pure and simple. We have natural gas installed in our home. It’s clean and cheap. We run our furnaces, hot water tanks, dryer, and kitchen range all...
“The ban on natural gas will put us out of business. 150 employees would lose their jobs. We have three Lombardi’s Italian restaurants, and another fine dining restaurant in the greater Seattle area. Almost all of our equipment and heating is natural gas. How would we overnight transition to all electrical appliances, even if those...
“As an American who has served my country and fought for our freedoms, I am very, very incensed that somebody’s trying to tell me how I must live my life. Why can’t I choose to have natural gas? Why should I be forced because we have a politically motivated agenda to decarbonize on a grid...
“I recently retired and I had planned on just hitting the road and going up and down the west coast in my car. Camping along the Oregon and Washington coast, going to Eastern Washington, visiting some relatives I haven’t seen in a long, long time and just enjoying myself. When I made those plans, I...
Eminent Domain is a law which gives the government the right to take your property for a public use. They have to provide financial compensation, but it often isn’t enough – and the financial compensation often doesn’t make up for being forced out of your property. We talked to Randy Jones of Port Orchard, Washington about...
“My dad was a driver. He started his own trucking company – just a one-truck deal – in 2006 when I was a sophomore in high school. I helped him from day one, then I took over after I graduated high school, seeing there was an opportunity for quality carriers out there.” “Now, I own...
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