Cleanup of Pence family gas stations cost Indiana more than $20 million

[G_j]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-pence-family-gas-stations-indiana-20180713-story.html

Vice President Mike Pence turns nostalgic when he talks about growing up in small-town Columbus, Indiana, where his father helped build a Midwestern empire of more than 200 gas stations that provided an upbringing on the "front row of the American dream."

The collapse of Kiel Bros. Oil Co. in 2004 was widely publicized. Less known is that the state of Indiana — and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois — are still on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells.

Indiana alone has spent at least $21 million on the cleanup thus far, or an average of about $500,000 per site, according to an analysis of records by The Associated Press. And the work is nowhere near complete.

The federal government, meanwhile, plans to clean up a plume of cancer-causing solvent discovered beneath a former Kiel Bros. station that threatens drinking water near the Pence family's hometown.

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[spanone]

1. pence doesn't give two shits about the environment....

or does anyone else in this administration.

[Bettie]

2. Apparently, What Jesus would do

is contaminate the environment and kill people with the toxic chemicals.

[Botany]

3. Rugged free market enterprise

'cept when it can be passed on to the government.

That $21 million could have helped lots of people but instead it goes to
clean up a Pence family toxic mess.

[Javaman]

4. is that like some repuke game achievement? to have your own superfund site?

pence the pig.

[NCTraveler]

5. This is a serious necessity.

It's for the public good.

Pence and his family should recognize the great benefits of government protecting people. They won't. They should.