For those interested in more detail, Texas Monthly has a (characteristically) excellent article that goes into much more detail than the Wikipedia entry:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/amarillo-federal-helium-reserve-auction/
good article — like many bad decisions it goes back to the Clinton era...
Yep! Great article. Few here will bother reading it.
Characteristically, I fell asleep after driving nine miles and four cattle guards. Jackrabbits whiz farther than miles there.
Interesting article. All this was already “baked in the cake.”