[Lonesome in Massachussets]

With oil at $140/barrel, it’s probably economical to truck it in from Manitoba.

[count-your-change]

In much of the West water rights are separate from the land and can be sold like timber taken down. But unlike timber the rights don’t grow back. So a person can buy the water rights from large tracts of land and never own any of that land. Of course that makes the land much lower in value.