April 11, 2012 06:15 PM UTC

Test Tube Colorado

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• by: JFrackenlooper

Remember that first chemistry set?  Did you read the instructions?  Hell no!  If you were like me you just starting mixing stuff together to see if anything would explode!

Those were the days–the heady time of discovery.  That’s what I want to do to for Colorado–turn it into industry’s test tube.

A little this, a little that…see what comes out.

That’s because when it’s about allowing energy companies to determine our future for us–whether its coal, oil, gas, shale, uranium, or maybe even wind and solar–“We’re open to anything.”

“It allows us to be that test tube case where all those energies and technologies can be implemented,” Hickenlooper said. “We’re open to anything.”

He said the nation’s first priority should be developing natural gas resources, where recent advances in drilling technology have led to a huge boost in production, but that it was smart to invest in renewable energy at the same time.

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