I get it my bad . As long as the dangerous stuff goes through someone else's neighborhood it's ok . Preferably some poor 3rd world neighborhood right? Did you care before it showed up in your back yard. If you use it or its derivatives you are part of the problem. That is a reality you cannot pretend away. You cannot choose X and then cry because Y happens. Well you can but that does not make it better.
This is classic cognitive dissonance. People feel guilt, shame and anger of the moral dilemma of using oil. So instead of minimizing its use in their life and being the change they want to see in the world, they attack the messenger of the moral dilemma. No one likes to feel guilty for violating their own ethical standards, so they project this anger out into this world. In this case they project their terrible feelings of violating their own ethical standards by consuming oil towards the project sponsor, for triggering the moral dilemma and the hurt feelings. That way they can still look in the mirror in the morning and say "I'm not a bad person because I'm opposing this project."
People don't want anything near them, even when that thing is providing good middle class jobs for their hard working neighbors in an area of high unemployment. What people really need down there is a golf course, a country club and another gated community.
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