[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Compare.
Mora-poor.
Farmington NM- Rich.
Roswell-Rich
Carlsbad-Rich.
Guymon OK rich
Woodward OK-Rich.
All because of fracking and gas extraction.

Central Oklahoma is now going gangbusters because of oil drilling.

Now compare Van Buren county Arkansas -Poor, but not any more now that gas extraction is taking place.

Of course, when the boom is over, things may change as I’ve seen happen many times.

Mora will still be poor, but the other areas will also be poor for those who don’t have mineral rights.

[Jim from C-Town]

Even those with no mineral rights will get jobs in the oil fields the ancillary industries and other industries that grow around a booming economy. This is what the Leftist morons refuse to understand. The wealthy, old or new, do not put their money under the mattress. They invest it, they spend it and they use it all over the economy and that generates even more income and wealth for the broader society.

The fact that my neighbor becomes wealthy has no negative effect on my circumstances, as a matter of fact, it probably only helps as said neighbor may spend his money on a business or service I provide or support a charity that I believe in.

[CedarDave]

Mora and San Miguel Counties are two basket cases - very little commercial activity; supported by tax money from the rest of the state. Their opposition equals to the level of their education; very much influenced by enviro-nutters from Santa Fe who spread the fallacy that every fossil fuel is bad. Funny thing is, most of them heat their homes with wood which pollutes far more than natural gas or oil fired boilers.