Wyoming Range: Too Special To Drill - Part 1

[PatriotPawnGuns]

Haha. This video is a classic example of propaganda. They try to appeal to our emotion by telling of their memories and showing pictures of beautiful scenery. BUT I HAVE NEWS!!! They don't drill in those locations. They drill in flat sage brush areas. It is harming the sage brush I guess.

[wm0709]

If all you anti hunting folk out there had a clue as to what you are talking about you would be embarrased by your own ignorance.Fact: Hunters are the number one contributers of funds for wildlife management,habitat protection,and keeping ecosystems healthy hands down. Hunters were taking care of wild places long before petas 1st cocktail party.The old boy who had idea about setting aside a little place they call Yellowstone.HUNTER! Wanabe Environmentalists are like armchair QBs. Useless tools

[jobedied]

I do not want to see any areas drilled but you guys got Dick Cheney living right in Montana . He is the political power house for drill baby drill and you can bet you bottom dollar he has no concern care or worry about the Gulf spill the Alaskan Valdez spill or any other spill. If you got oil you are going to have drill baby drill the oil companies own Washington and they own especially Montana which is Bush ,Cheney, home ground.

[baldrad1]

@jobedied ....and you want cheap gas, LOL. Dick Cheney, Schmick Cheney---you and your ilk think somebody's hoarding their oil somewhere and that's why it costs a lot.

But you probably have a propeller on your hat that'sproviding all your energy needs, LMAO.

[jobedied]

@baldrad1 I just converted to solar panels , next purchase is electric auto. That will be several more years. We have to live the change we want to see you can LYAO but know this, these oil maniacs are going to be sorry they caused so much resistance to changing our infastructure. In the end man will look back and see these oil guys that tried to stop our weaning away from oil as a family of pigs.

[baldrad1]

@jobedied ...nobody's stopping you from doing as you like. If you prefer a COAL car, have at it. Self-sufficient homes (or mostly) is a great idea and feasible. But we're stuck with oil, natural gas and coal for a long time into the future, Green BS notwithstanding.

If your green technology was economically feasible as big time replacement for fossil fuels, it would have worked already. Now, with high fuel costs, it is closer to reality but YOU and yours DEMAND fossil fuels DAILY.

[jobedied]

@baldrad1 good point but we all have to wean from mama's tit at some time and start feeding on something else as we grow. It will take time this weaning process but we keep regressing back. If the price of fuel were not artificially controlled and kept lower than the real rate it should be at we would be at a level where the new technologies would phase in a lot faster. We subsidize oil companies 16 billion a year to keep prices down. Real free markets do not exist except at small local scales.

[baldrad1]

@jobedied "free market " is the preferred ideal to strive for in economic policy, because competition breeds excellence and benefits the consumer, but anybody in business knows instinctively that you must carve yourself something of a niche or brand yourself/your enterprise in a way that gives you a marketing advantage (monopoly to at least a slight degree) in order to actually survive. So this is the reality, and everybody is entitled to build that niche if they can.

[baldrad1]

@jobedied If you're talking about the Oil Depletion Allowance, it's a very old tax provision that amounts to a depreciation schedule, originally designed to encourage exploration/drilling. You can eliminate it, and all it will do is disincentivise exploration. It's not 16 bil/yr., it's 21 bil./ ten years.

Regardless of the back and forth we may have on ODA, do the math: eliminating it will run the Insane DC Clown Spending Posse for less than FIVE--count 'em--FIVE hours.

[jobedied]

@baldrad1 that is likely what I was refering to, it is interesting that the oil companies run on a 4% profit margin which is low compaired to most business. Makes one wonder if they were getting eight or ten percent profit how much more expensive fossil energy would be. It will take time to become more energy independent and fossil fuels will likely never be replaced in specialized applications like aircraft. Im worried about the environmental and human harm that are becoming stronger.

[baldrad1]

@jobedied ...that's five hours per year.

Annual Budget=3.65 trillion (ignoring the fact we are actually spending 4.3 tril.)

3.65 trillion divided by 365 days/yr = 10 billion per day

10 billion/day divided by 2.1 billion = approx. FIVE hours of insane DC spending.........

[GntShedZ]

im glad you guys are doing this. now its time for you guys to find out how to reach more people and really make an impact. I will help do my part. What i love the most trophy mule deer are almost gone b/c of over drilling on winter range. the price for oil has done nothing but go up. as far as im concerned b/c of access and the destruction of the mule deer herd western wyoming is almost ruined.

[uploadcrap]

i grew up on my grandparrents ranch on the foot of the range its my favorite place in the world dont tare it down

[freedomunrestricted]

I have been hunting in the wyoming range for years in the Labarge creek, deadline ridge and miller mountain area. Some of my favorite spots to stop and grab a bite to eat or just sit and watch the hillsides are old oil and gas locations. The only thing to even indicate there was a well there is a small steel pipe sticking about 6 feet out of the ground. I think something we should worry about a lot more than oil is private development taking over the area. No drilling = higher property values

[whomsoeveragain]

How sad and short sighted the majority of the comments here are. Hopefully now America has a President with a brain the major pollutant of our world will grow up and realise they have a responsibility to preserve that world for generations to come.

[rll7548]

Drill HERE, Drill NOW, Pay LESS, so more people can have lower gasoline prices. That way maybe more people can AFFORD to drive to your wonderful wilderness and see what is typically reserved for those with private jets, whose consumption of fuel drives up the price of gasoline so more ORDINARY Americans are kept out of your wilderness. Let's just fall down and WORSHIP the wilderness and sacrifice the necessities of life for the masses. They don't really matter anyway, do they?

[Tanroker]

This is why barrasso needs to be in office again to protect this

[pglemba]

So what am I suposta do? I drive for a living.. the oil prices keep going up the less money I make... pretty soon I'll be losing money. So what I'm going to starve because we cant relocate a few animals? Seriosuly this country is too damn sensitive.. I'd bet everything I own that as soon as you are affected like I have been you would change the tone of you're song really fast.

[toyhorse]

Has the price of natual gas gone down with all the drilling? NO!!! So get a clue. It's not just wildlife but the air and water too.

[7007007000]

I know the Double J Ranch is right near my aunt and uncle's property in Daniel, Sublette County, Wyoming. It is such a nice place with creeks, mountains and meadows. Don't drill in the Wyoming Range!

[madmax21tm]

Ya its Gods country and He mad the gas for us to drill. It will all burn some day anyway so get off it.

[noprofanitydannity]

right on protect the wyoming range!!! keep the rigs out they got the jona and mesa fields thats enough!!!

[harleyq2]

killing animals and drilling are both awesome. screw wyoming. and F peta idiots

[palluxomedia]

Hunting and killing animals is worse than Drilling.

[Ramathorn1985]

Ok so Mr outfitter. You take people hunting and kill the wildlife we love to see but we take something from the ground you will never see that profits the economy and thats bad?? Drilling doesnt effect the wildlife in "god country" Ive seen herds of antelope and sage chicken walk right through location and never even flintch.

[7007007000]

The long term effects from drilling are disasterous to the environment. Enough of Sublette County has been drilled, there are just some places that need protected.

[Stony1900]

Yeah pls dont drill we haven't killed all the wildlife there yet like we have the rest of the country. Oh its so great to go out and kill every animal we see and I grew up hunting and fishing and if there was animals in the rocks Id shoot them too. Both of these activities destroy the environment but hunting the animals to extinction will take generations.

[LMgolfer27]

It is great that Senator Barrasso put through the Bill to protect the Wyoming Range!  Congrats!