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There are bad ideas, and then there are ideas so perfectly inverted they achieve a kind of gravitational absurdity — policy decisions that do not merely fail, but actively reverse the basic logic of cause and effect, like a man who burns down his house to save on heating and then congratulates himself on the reduced utility bill.
Paying a foreign oil company nearly a billion dollars to not build American energy infrastructure is one of those ideas.
And yet here we are.
By Pimm FoxThere are bad ideas, and then there are ideas so perfectly inverted they achieve a kind of gravitational absurdity — policy decisions that do not merely fail, but actively reverse the basic logic of cause and effect, like a man who burns down his house to save on heating and then congratulates himself on the reduced utility bill.
Paying a foreign oil company nearly a billion dollars to not build American energy infrastructure is one of those ideas.
And yet here we are.