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Should Ohio lease state parks and preserves to gas and oil companies?
Should Ohio lease state parks and preserves to gas and oil companies that want to drill there?
RAYMOND ROSS, Eaton: “The revenue is something the state could actually use. I wouldn’t be opposed to it, as long as they repair the land when they leave. I think Gov. Kasich has some good ideas when it comes to helping out Ohio.”
RICHARD NEIL, Bethel Twp.: “No. There wouldn’t be much to preserve when they got done with it.”
BOB SHAW, Huber Heights: “I don’t know what they’re supposed to do, but, oh boy, oh boy, they’ve got to do something. Ohio sure needs the money the state could get from the leases.”
LAURIE WOODRUFF, Huber Heights: “No. They’re public places. They should be left for people to enjoy.”
JOANNE SCOTT, Huber Heights: “No, because there’s not going to be any natural habitat left if we continue and continue. We’ve got to find another source of energy.”
Comments
By People power
April 17, 2011 6:51 AM | Link to this
No…we need $10.00 a gallon gasoline/diesel prices, and $15.00 a gallon Jet-A aviation kerosene prices to finally have any productive infrastructure in the U.S. finally collapse. All drilling for the substance that moves us (oil) must stop. No new refineries have been built since the 70’s, and the ones we had (over 300) have now been reduced to approx. 100. This is well and good. The wheel was invented for people to push it, not machines that pollute. After all is said and done, we can all commune in the state parks, and set up the collective to distribute what others will determine you may have, due to your prior political allegence. It is time for mankind to pay for his progress. Marxism/Socialism is the answer, and our great leader in D.C. will ensure that more progressive people will be introduced to his administration to replace former Communists such as Van Jones and Anita Dunn…progressives that will insure that we all are taken care of and tow the line to equality for everyone. Sounds like a plan.
By Joker
April 17, 2011 9:48 AM | Link to this
What’s the point of preserving them then? Absolutely not.
By Moore Outdoors
April 17, 2011 7:04 PM | Link to this
No. Ohio only has 3% public land for recreation. We are nearly last in the US in terms of public land for recreation. Gas companies want 1 landowner to rip off. Go drill the 97% of the land that is privately owned first. Gov Kasich and ODNR should be protecting our public investment not raping it!
By karon
April 17, 2011 9:31 PM | Link to this
Passenger trains for this state would create good paying jobs and bring back Ohio cities! Oil prices are not coming down no matter how much we drill! Ohio has to start addressing building substainably and alternative transportation!
By urkidding
April 17, 2011 10:41 PM | Link to this
Drilling for oil in the parks is one of the nuttiest ideas the Republicans have had of late for many reasons. It is o.k. as when the people in Ohio get to vote again they will all be out of a job, thankfully !
By Karon cant be TRAINed
April 18, 2011 7:51 AM | Link to this
Trains arent coming Karon…what an idiot!
By JS
April 18, 2011 9:01 AM | Link to this
What would happen if the oil is drilled for: no significant change in oii prices, so no real change to the average person. Why? Because oil that’s drilled here isn’t neccessarily sold here, and the price of it is determined on a global market in which demand is still going up and supply is going down. No amount of drilling here is going to change the math in our favor, and the two numbers to think about are 2% of the worlds supply and 25% of the demand. You can’t meet our demand with what oil resources we have. Fudge the numbers for funsies to 5% of the supply and 20% of the demand and you still can’t get us off foreign oil. The only way to get off oil is to stop using it, the sooner, the better, and the cheaper. Keep waiting, and we’re done for. Oh, and trains WILL come, for the same inevitable mathematics.
By JS
April 18, 2011 9:07 AM | Link to this
And NONE of that is Marxism, or socialism, or communism. It’s survival. You don’t keep going in a direction that can’t have a positive outcome. I refuse to continue to invest in a transportation schema that will end this nation’s independence. Don’t say a word about the market deciding, because there is no free market, or even a halfway free market, at work here. Not with the subsidies the oil companies get and the existence of OPEC. In fact, NONE of our markets are ‘free’.
By Squirrellygirl
April 20, 2011 9:40 AM | Link to this
What happened to the oil drilling in the gulf and Alaska? I see there are mostly red states effected by Hussein’s moratorium and resulting lack of permits by his “regulatory czar” Cass Sustein. So who gets Ohio when our economy crashes? Seriously, Hussein hates Americans, didn’t you know that? Billions to Brazil to drill and have jobs there? At least Hussein is taking caring of Brazil…seriously, how can the progressives look you in the eye and tell you Obama is working for Americans and not doing everything within his POWER to kill America’s future?
By Squirrellygirl
April 22, 2011 8:34 AM | Link to this
$10/gal gas is not that far fetched. It could go higher than that if this administration doesn’t allow for drilling here. And I heard the gas could go to $6/gal by summer. I just don’t know what reason a pro-American president would send billions of dollars to another country for drilling there and sit on our permits for drilling here…it doesn’t make sense. Unless…Beck is right.