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Originally posted by ltl/fb
It's easy to spin that way, but it really is a pain in the ass to comply with regulations. I think that while it seems inefficient, it's more efficient than having all these individual actors roaming around doing their own things and then having to fix it (which is nearly always more expensive than just doing it differently the first time around) when you get sued, or whatever. I mean, WAY easier to dispose of my oil properly than to compensate people for the diseases they get from polluted groundwater, or to dig up all the earth that was touched by the oil and then find someplace to dispose of that hugely larger hunk of stuff.
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We relied on the common law in these areas for years, and it didn't work well. That's why these laws were passed.
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