The tradeoff that will be worth watching is how Big Oil demands that the cost for repositioning of pipelines should be funded by the public , not them . Reminder the oil companies own the pipelines . <| sep |> I suppose that I completely ignore the vote thing . It ' s fairly meaningless . I ' ve had a few thousand upvotes for a bad pun and a hugely negative score on well sourced and reasoned posts that had a lot of work go into them . I have no idea whatsoever why I ' m in the thirty thousands and have about three years worth of gold stacked up , because , well . look at me . I would have thought , however , it might be politer for the handbaggy bits of some discussions to be moved away somewhere else ? A civilising pressure cooker valve of sorts , if you will .