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Baobab

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15. Those are exactly the kinds of buildings that could end up costing twice as much or more to heat
Sun May 15, 2016, 12:10 AM
May 2016

if the price of natural gas in the US rises due to the exporting of natural gas for the first time since the 1970s, "until its gone".

If that happens then there will be a lot of pressure from real estate developers to declare older houses (built before 1960) as blighted which is a step to acquiring the land via eminent domain.

Typically in the past it was for some public use but now its become okay to just give it to real estate developers. For profit. So people might turn some neighborhood into a nice place, and then suddenly get a notice that in 60 days there will be a hearing for redevelopment and their whole neighborhood is going to be razed to build condos or a mall or whatever. involuntarily.

The sudden jump in gas prices due to T~T I --- P would give them a national excuse to do that on a massive scale.



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