Wyoming Range: Too Special To Drill - Part 1

Join Citizens Protecting the Wyoming Range!

In western Wyoming a movement is growing. When natural gas development was first proposed in the forested lands south of Jackson Hole, a few people raised the alarm. Now the chorus of voices speaking out to protect this place and its way of life has expanded. The place: the Wyoming Range, a beautiful, secluded mountain range that provides sanctuary to mule deer, elk, moose and cutthroat trout. The way of life: the classic western experience of hunting, fishing, camping, and horsepacking with family and friends. This video tells the story of the outfitters, ranchers, labor representatives and others who are leading the effort to keep drilling out of the Wyoming Range. Some places are too special to drill. Some places need our help—your help—to ensure they remain intact for generations to come. Watch this video and become a part of the movement at www.WyomingRange.org.

Video contains interviews with Gary Amerine, Dustin Child, JJ Healy, Julie Huntley, Monte Morlock, Mike Burd and Mindi Crabb.

Part 1: Introduction, Dustin Child - Outfitter, JJ Healy - Rancher and Skytruth Mapping.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• wyoming
• range
• citizens
• protecting
• pinedale
• anticline
• jonah
• gary
• amerine
• oil
• natural
• gas
• drilling
• skytruth

[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.

[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.........

[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.

[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.

[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 ...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 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 ....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.

[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