This is why the middle of the country detests coastal elites who seek to impose their values on regions remote from where they reside. Without the electoral college and the Senate the coastal elites would control every aspect of the lives of the rest of us. Alexis de Tocqueville warned us about the tyranny of the majority and his writings are more relevant today than they were two centuries ago.
Link: http://www.startribune.com/judge-rules-against-trump-drilling-plans-because-they-ignore-climate-change/507413712/