The resort to this sinking moral high ground is made by people properly concerned with the human ill of racism, but so preemptively concerned with it that they now layer that racial consciousness over the evidence of other features of reality.

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Moreover, environmental regulations and inevitable lawsuits from groups opposing refineries popping up in their backyard mean oil companies risk sinking billions into breaking ground, only to never see a facility get up and running.

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