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<lionelhutz6@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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As an environmentalist, that is a bad idea. New Orleans was a mistake.
A city never should have been built there in the first place. I
agree with guy earlier who said that the land should be given over to
industrial uses.
That is probably true. New Orleans has been conceived on a swamp.
Financing the project was done with the help of the first grand real estate
scam in the New World. "To supply people and capital to the colony [of New
Orleans], John Law's company began what was essentially the first real
estate scam in the New World. The territory and the city were marketed on
the continent as Heaven on Earth, full of immediate and boundless
opportunities for wealth and luxury. The value of real estate in the
territory rose dramatically with the spreading of these lies as wealthy
Europeans, aristocrats, merchants, exiles, soldiers, and a large contingent
of German farmers arrived -- to find only mosquitoes, a raw frontier
existence, and swampy land. Ultimately, the company's scheme nearly
bankrupted the French nation. It did succeed, however, in swelling the
population of the territory and of New Orleans; in 1723 the city replaced
Biloxi as the capital of the Louisiana territory. (
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/neworleans/0020020044.html ).
On the other hand, if New Orleans is abandoned, who will man all those
refineries which have been feeding gas-guzzlers all over the East coast of
the USA? That will mean that until new refineries are built elsewhere brace
yourself for $10.00/gallon gas.
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