Comments on: County Commissioners and oil and gas industry

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:48:29 +0000

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By: Paul Muldowney

Paul Muldowney — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:14:53 +0000

I would like to weigh in, *Ripple Effect*
I think this forum will be interesting. Let’s keep it that way. It’s about time there was a place to unload my ADHD thoughts. It’s self diagnosed.
Bush said he couldn’t persuade the the Saudi’s to lower oil prices. Bernacke said Thurs. to committee he was out of tricks in his bag to stem Inflation, reducing interests is wrecking the value of the dollar. “Real inflation last year was 3.5%.” “Oil is the culprit” raising 2/3 of it’s cost in 07. Allard said commodity prices are effected by oil prices which is hurting his constituents.

Bush says we must reduce our **addictions to oil**. Sean, Rush, and others say we must drill here and there to cut our dependence. But in the 70’s at our peak production we only provided 10% of our needs. Drilling anywhere else won’t give us any more than an additional 10%.

County commissioners - current, Kathy Hall - past want to run headlong, full speed ahead. Daily Sentinels’s Brad Stieg’s editorial about Natural Gas doesn’t fit a Black Sunday, and now a city coucilwoman, believe as others that we got the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg - heads up. If we’re not careful we could experience a shock far worse than Black Sunday!
It starts with understanding our addiction and it’s ramifications to it, just like Meth. It has a *ripple effect* that eventually destroys lives and our economy by creating inflative pricing related to increased demand - addiction, right? So how do we fight back? To fight addiction you have to stop. That won’t happen any time soon. We can’t control the price of crude, but we can control demand which directly effects price. How? Reduce the speed limit back to 55 mph again, we save 20% of our total oil consuption per day.
Inflation is our first symptom or sign of the dangers of our addictions. The pains and quality of life as we know it will change. Going to that end can not be made more comfortable. Conquering my addictions have been enlightening, yet painful. I don’t see us conquering our addiction to oil anytime soon, but I do see tempering oil prices on the horizon and alot of it will come with the realization that I saw on faces of the members of Congress that oil prices are the reason for inflation. Decreased consumption decreases demand and prices fall which is the only tool we have to reduce inflation.
What will have the greatest effect upon us are the facts. There isn’t really any shortage of oil but an increase of demand. There isn’t any shortage of natural gas, no one can dispute that fact either. So heads up!
And let’s not act immature in our responses.

By: Willis Leon Johnson

Willis Leon Johnson — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:34:56 +0000

“Hard Right”? ME???

More like a good sense of reality.

“nothing productive”, obviously you don’t pay attention.

You want he pretty place to live and hike back?

Stop electing politicians that promise the world and deliver nothing but higher taxes and more government.

You want lower prices and higher wages?

Send the illegal aliens home so they can build a better place there.

Less demand for ALL goods and services. Less demand for housing. This List could go on for a long time.

You don’t like the energy companies drilling here?

Lower the demand by going “off grid”.

How many solar panels are YOUR house? Do YOU have a solar water heater installed?

By: John B.

John B. — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:25:06 +0000

Willard Leon Johson is proving to have far too much time on his hands.Inane, hard right comments on just about everything adds nothing to productive dialog but I guess he now has the forum he apparently desperately needed.

By: Willis Leon Johnson

Willis Leon Johnson — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:22:38 +0000

You two are OFF GRID are you not?

By: dwolford1

dwolford1 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:15:17 +0000

Those are my sentiments, too, Carol. I was taken aback with the commissioners position re COGCC rule making. We elected a legislature that passed a mandate to reform the rules. Now we hear from Meis etal. that the COGCC is not inviting the industry to help them make the new rules. Surprise! I’m pretty sure that the legislature intended that we get rules written and examined without excessive influence from the industry.

Take a look, not only at the Republicans who petitioned onto the primary ballot, but at Dan Robinson, who will oppose Commissioner Meis on the November ballot. Dan is a solid citizen with plenty of experience and a keen understanding of what we in the valley value — the beauty of the place where we live, hiking, biking, hunting, and fishing in Mesa County.