The Similkameen News Leader
Editorial
THE PEANUT BUTTER AND JAM SANDWICH
EDITORIAL - January 30, 2007
We have come to the conclusion that some people really dislike peanut butter mixed with jam. In the case we are talking about the peanut butter is wood waste, the jam is coal and Compliance Energy is the sandwich maker.
Sure, quite a few folks have taken a nibble on that sandwich and seem to like the flavour, but with all great sandwiches comes a variety of variations and Compliance has provided more than one variation by adding more jam and cutting back on the peanut butter to a point where a lot of people have made enough noise to make many of us question the need for peanut butter (wood waste) at all when it appears that all Compliance wants us to eat is a jam (coal) sandwich.
We suspect that they are already in their sandwich making lab coming up with something new, just in case. Maybe the new item on their menu will be a peanut butter (wood waste) and honey (natural gas) sandwich with varieties related to how much more or less peanut butter can be mixed into the equation.
We suspect the new improved sandwich will only go so far and once it's determined that the price of transporting or the supply of the peanut butter (wood waste) portion of the sandwich gets costly or limited along with an increase in the cost of producing the honey (natural gas) portion of the sandwich, then and only then, will Compliance remind us that in order for them to keep feeding our local economy with their sandwiches, they will have to eliminate the peanut butter and honey one from the menu in favour of just a jam (coal) sandwich.
By then they will have a huge sandwich making factory established in the area and a staff of 15 highly-skilled sandwich makers they had to ship in from other parts of the country as there was no one in the area with that level of expertise or experience in the mechanics of building the right sandwich.
Compliance would likely put pressure on local, regional and provincial officials at that time to allow them to build only jam sandwiches. The argument they could use would state something about producing jam sandwiches being a no-brainer since they already own a big hill of the exact type of jam (coal) they would need for their product.
By this time the politicians would all be different and who knows, maybe for a change everyone would agree on the type of sandwich they liked collectively and it may or may not be the one on Compliance's menu.
This is why we are always suspicious of a sandwich maker who keeps changing his menu before he opens his sandwich shop. You never really know what he's trying to slip between those slices of bread.
