01-06-2019, 01:03 PM
"Hilo can find all sorts of other industries if we want"
Like what, building telescopes? We have two industries: tourism and taxation. And the second industry is dependent on the first.
If tourists had never been to Hawaii before and it was suddenly a new industry, people would now attend a public meeting to decry on how the fuel spent flying people here is destroying the environment. Regardless if those same people were otherwise going to fly to France to drink their bottled water.
Like what, building telescopes? We have two industries: tourism and taxation. And the second industry is dependent on the first.
If tourists had never been to Hawaii before and it was suddenly a new industry, people would now attend a public meeting to decry on how the fuel spent flying people here is destroying the environment. Regardless if those same people were otherwise going to fly to France to drink their bottled water.