Hitting the nail squarely

Talking of reclamation and reuse of old-growth forest timbers, Billy opines that the mere thought of having to deal with the bureaucratic malaise is just too much to bear;

"The sick rot of it all is that the very next thing one must account for is how much all the vampires from here to Albany would suck out of the project of so much as pinning a dozen of the goddamned things together upright."

Don't I fucking know it.