Oil & Gas Industry Lets One Fly

11 thoughts on “Oil & Gas Industry Lets One Fly”

1. Can we please do a full comparative analysis of oil and gas vs. other technologies, including health costs, long-term environmental damage, subsidization, property rights conflicts, etc.?

   I also like the following:

   Colorado oil and gas producers are organizing to influence government policy in reaction to concerns about a perceived anti-energy bias in the state.

   Really?  An anti-energy bias?  That’s almost as good as being told that being against slavery was an “anti-cotton bias”.  I don’t see people being against energy – I see people looking to improve efficiency and reduce harmful practices.

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2. “We as an industry need to find better ways to tell the public what the costs of certain public-policy decisions are.”

   That isn’t a plea for sympathy.
   That is a threat.

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   1. Or a whine.

      “If you make us clean up the salt water that we’re dumping on to this farmer’s field, we’ll have to raise your winter heating bill by $100.”  Just doesn’t have the right ring to it.  I’m sure they’ll work it out.

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      1. but reduced to a whine

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         1. what stewards of the nations resources.  Make us clean up our act and we’ll jack up your bill !

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3. His corporation has had over 100 complaints since 2005.  You can see the complaints by searching the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s database.  Here’s how:

   1)  Go to:  http://www.oil-gas.s…
   2)  Select “Complaint” as the search type
   3)  Enter “Barrett Corporation” as the operator
   4)  Set the number of records to 1,000

   You can then see all of the complaints by homeowners that have the misfortune of living by his oil/gas wells. 

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4. It’s as if they have bent over and asked, “please sir may I have another.”  http://www.colorados…

   And this is most laughable: “The Ritter administration may say that they are friends to energy, but their policy says something else completely.” McElhany remarked. 

   It may seem Andy McElhany knows what he’s talking about, but it’s been proving over and over something else completely!

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5. Yeah, you tell us.  Don’t forget all the health issues, and while we are at it, funding a super-pig military budget so that we can protect our needle in our arms in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

   Total cost per gallon of gasoline:  About $20.

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6. The energy industry is going to try and generate sympathy? From who? That press release is worse than doing nothing.

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7. 1st–Its personally offensive, disrespectful, and utterly absurd to equate the folks who want to protect Roan Plateau–like, say the mayors of Garfield County communities, with Osama, as does the new Schnake/Sims bastard child, Americans for American Energy.

   2nd–Industry should pony up the math…  Show me how rampant development in CO has brought down energy prices…  How’s this for another article:  (“Bye-bye Colorado nat. gas, wildlife, roadless lands, clean air and water… hello price increases and industry profits!!!)–

   “Expert: Pipeline will alter market
   By The Associated Press
   DENVER – Expansion of a natural gas pipeline from the Rockies to Ohio will likely boost profits for gas companies and prices for area consumers, an energy market expert said.

   The Rockies Express pipeline, being built from Colorado and Wyoming to the East, will radically change the market’s structure…

   Currently, gas from Colorado and Wyoming is cheaper than the national price because there aren’t enough pipelines to ship it to other regions…

   The Rockies Express line, expected to be pumping gas to Ohio within two years, will change that, Bennett said.”

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   1. They just don’t get it.  Imagine if any of these companies reinvested, oh, 5% of their profits into some facet of alternative energy.

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